[Openstack-operators] nova-neutron with vsphere

Federico Michele Facca federico.facca at create-net.org
Thu Sep 24 09:25:54 UTC 2015


you may have a look also at this project which uses a vm inside vcenter:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/Networking-vSphere

Br,
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Federico Michele Facca <
federico.facca at create-net.org> wrote:

> Hi Miko,
> it is possible to develop a neutron extension for achieveing your goal.
> Indeed for a customer we developed a ML2 driver that creates the needed
> portgroups and connect them to the right vlan in vCenter and hence when
> VMware VMs are created connect them to the create portgroups. The solution
> in this case is very simple, i.e. all the traffic goes through the
> controller nodes (no dvr, for example using the vmware proxy compute).
> Unfortunately, I don't think we can share the code (the customer retained
> the IPR on it) :(
>
> my suggestion is:
> - have a look on how to create a ML2 plugin
> - understand vCenter APIs
>
> Br,
> Federico
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> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Miko Bello <openstack at mikebeauty.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> i would like to know if anybody has tried to implement a neutron solution
>> with vsphere without using NSX-like solutions.
>> I mean, my lab environment is composed of :
>>
>>  - 1 network node ( neutron )
>>  - 1 controller node
>>  - 2 compute node ( kvm)
>>  - 1 compute node linked to a cluster vsphere 6.0
>>
>> i tried, without success ;( to deploy an instance on vsphere node with a
>> network configuration of type VLAN; ( obviously, in this configuration,i
>> have not the ambition of a ovs solution type :) )
>> so my questions are: it's' possible to implement a network neutron
>> solution of type VLAN ? if yes how can i do?
>> Thanks in advantage.
>> Miko Bello
>>
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