[Openstack-operators] nova-neutron with vsphere

Ignazio Cassano ignaziocassano at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 09:40:14 UTC 2015


Hi Federico, the link you suggested  is very interesting but I did not find
a link to download the vm appliance for vmware.
Regards
Ignazio

2015-09-24 11:25 GMT+02:00 Federico Michele Facca <
federico.facca at create-net.org>:

> you may have a look also at this project which uses a vm inside vcenter:
>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/Networking-vSphere
>
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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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