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Hello,
thanks Gary. You've just confirmed my fear...
Do you have a link that explains precisely how to setup the NVP plugin?
I've found some documentation around the official documentation but it's
not very detailed.

Thanks & Best regards.
Romain.


2014/1/24 Gary Kotton <gkotton at vmware.com>

> Hi,
> At the moment the only supported Neutron plugin with the VMware drivers is
> the NVP plugin. The NVP works with hybrid setups.
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>
> From: Romain Ziba <romain.ziba at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:24 AM
> To: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: [Openstack] Network interfaces with VMware & Neutron OVS
>
> Hello, I've configured a multi-node infrastructure with a controller and
> two compute nodes. One of the compute node is a basic QEMU and the other
> one is a VMware compute node using the VMwareESXDriver. On the controller,
> I have configured Neutron using OpenVSwitch.
>
> Everything works fine with a VM created on the QEMU hypervisor. But when I
> create a VM with cirrOS on VMware via Openstack, the network interfaces are
> not recognized by the OS. I can see thanks to Vsphere Client that the VM
> has a network adapter connected to br-int but nothing in the OS (no eth0).
>
> I'm wondering if the problem comes from OpenVSwitch. I've read in some
> docs that OpenVSwitch is not compatible with a VMware compute node.
> http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/ope...<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-network/admin/content/flexibility.html&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=eH0pxTUZo8NPZyF6hgoMQu%2BfDtysg45MkPhCZFxPEq8%3D%0A&m=HDg2S2Y1D013xW16T5I96OLO0ZB00tKx8tvCox%2Boy2U%3D%0A&s=a2539a0e9685a25290f7f059757d1281bb5eb2651da6b5d5840a2ca9e2e4f571>
>
> However, in this doc, the problem is not raised:
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/confi...<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/config-reference/content//vmware.html%23VMWare_networking&k=oIvRg1%2BdGAgOoM1BIlLLqw%3D%3D%0A&r=eH0pxTUZo8NPZyF6hgoMQu%2BfDtysg45MkPhCZFxPEq8%3D%0A&m=HDg2S2Y1D013xW16T5I96OLO0ZB00tKx8tvCox%2Boy2U%3D%0A&s=8877a7a9fe58c56c32b1d6d7d2427888b655f644d4d9465822c7b2fc1dfeabc0>
>
> Then, what's your opining? Do I have to change for NVP plugin? Is the
> problem somewhere else?
>
> Is it easy to change OVS plugin to NVP?
>
> Thanks beforehand.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Romain.
>
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