[Openstack-operators] nova-neutron with vsphere

Ignazio Cassano ignaziocassano at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 09:55:16 UTC 2015


Federico, I presume you speak italian.
Your company is a Mirantis partner ?
We are going to select an openstack distro and we need to speak about
mirantis.
Ignazio

2015-09-24 11:52 GMT+02:00 Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>:

> Thanks
>
> 2015-09-24 11:49 GMT+02:00 Federico Michele Facca <
> federico.facca at create-net.org>:
>
>> Hi Ignazio,
>> never tested it, I may suppose that during the installation the appliance
>> is created or downloaded (but I may be totally wrong). As by documentation:
>>
>> For help using or hacking on OVSvApp solution, you can send an email to
>> the OpenStack Development Mailing List <mailto:
>> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>; kindly use the [Networking-vSphere]
>> Tag in the subject.
>>
>> Br,
>> Federico
>>
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>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Ignazio Cassano <
>> ignaziocassano at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Br,
>>>> Federico
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Future Internet is closer than you think!
>>>> http://www.fiware.org
>>>>
>>>> Official Mirantis partner for OpenStack Training
>>>> https://www.create-net.org/community/openstack-training
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Federico M. Facca
>>>>
>>>> CREATE-NET
>>>> Via alla Cascata 56/D
>>>> 38123 Povo Trento (Italy)
>>>>
>>>> P  +39 0461 312471
>>>> M +39 334 6049758
>>>> E  federico.facca at create-net.org
>>>> T @chicco785
>>>> W  www.create-net.org
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Future Internet is closer than you think!
>>>>> http://www.fiware.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Official Mirantis partner for OpenStack Training
>>>>> https://www.create-net.org/community/openstack-training
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dr. Federico M. Facca
>>>>>
>>>>> CREATE-NET
>>>>> Via alla Cascata 56/D
>>>>> 38123 Povo Trento (Italy)
>>>>>
>>>>> P  +39 0461 312471
>>>>> M +39 334 6049758
>>>>> E  federico.facca at create-net.org
>>>>> T @chicco785
>>>>> W  www.create-net.org
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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