[Openstack] Networking issues for openstack on XCP

Yan Zhai zhaiyan920 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 07:51:51 UTC 2012


have even more trouble setting up quantum itself. The plugin support in XCP
looks not as good as KVM: the first problem is python 2.6 and it's solved
by adding new repository. But when I installed the openvswitch agent, it
can not start, requiring some quantum python module, which then seems have
dependency on libudev. And this means I have to update almost the whole
dom0, including libc, udev, and blablabla to get that library. That's too
risky. Maybe I shall stay with bridge plugin and see if things can be a
little better...

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Afef MDHAFFAR <afef.mdhaffar at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am also trying to install openstack, with xcp.
> I used devstack to do that, since it is more simple.
> However, I am still facing a network problem.
> Actually, I got a private network per physical node. I am able to access
> the tenant VMs from the corresponding openstack DomU. But, these tenant VMs
> are not inaccessible from any other machines.
> Is that normal (ie. a private network per physical node? The created
> tenant VMs can access external machines, but they are invisible to other
> machines?
> Is there any way to let my VMs accessible, at least from other tenant VMs
> (created on other physical nodes)?
> How can Quantum solve this problem?
>
> Thank you
>
> Regards,
> Afef
>
>
> 2012/11/17 Yan Zhai <zhaiyan920 at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>>  thanks for reply. Currently I am just looking for a way to bring it up
>> for internal trial, so if Quantum is better I will move to that. The only
>> reason that I am still asking for questions about nova-network is because
>> of the document order: I am setting things following the install document,
>> but when it comes to the network part I encountered above confusions. I
>> will check the quantum document to see if anything can be simplified.
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> best
>> Yan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Robert Garron <
>> Robert.Garron at access3000.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  Yan,
>>>
>>> In my opinion, if you are going to spend all the time learning a new
>>> product -- i.e. nova network vs quantum.  And if you are only testing a
>>> concept, I would spend it upon Folsom and move from Essex and/or nova
>>> network and nova storage.  Quantum eases many of the issues Nova network
>>> has  or had, but quantum is the system for support and deployment going
>>> forward.... just my 2 cents...
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/17/12 12:33 AM, Yan Zhai wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>     I am trying a proof of concept install of openstack on xen cloud
>>> platform. However, I am a little confused about the network part in Folsom.
>>>    My architecture:
>>>      1 Controller node: no Xen, only Ubuntu 12.04, everything for
>>> openstack service except for nova-compute
>>>      2 Compute node: XCP 1.6 beta, with nova-compute in special domU
>>> (Ubuntu 12.04), xenapi plugin installed in dom0 already
>>>      each node has two NIC, one with public IP (Only limited floating
>>> IP), and another in private network (Any IP is OK)
>>>
>>>     My goal for network:
>>>      flat network or flat dhcp network. I want to use eth0 for public
>>> traffic and service request, and eth1 for inter-vm traffic.
>>>
>>>     My questions:
>>>      1.) does each domU need nova-network running? My understanding is
>>> it's OK to run nova-network individually, but then how to mange the
>>> floating IP globally?
>>>      2.) in document for flatdhcp network, I saw four interfaces for
>>> each management domU. Is it OK to have only two interfaces? Say,
>>>           eth0-xenbr0 for public IP and services, and eth1-xenbr1 for VM
>>> network?
>>>      3.) Is the network isolation rules a must for test install? I found
>>> the patch to vif is still for xenserver 5.6_p2, and can not be applied to
>>> vif of xcp 1.6 or xenserver 6.1, which might be a trouble.
>>>
>>>     If anyone could help me kindly, it will be quite appreciated, I
>>> have been stuck with install document for several days.
>>>
>>>  thanks a lot!
>>> - Yan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> - Yan
>>
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