[Openstack] Network interfaces with VMware & Neutron OVS

Romain Ziba romain.ziba at gmail.com
Fri Jan 24 14:26:59 UTC 2014


Hi,
I've just found that Nicira NVP doesn't exist anymore: No more packages
neutron-plugin-nicira. It seems that VMware now works on VMware NSX and
this is not available by downloading... Am I right?
If yes, what are my options?

Thanks beforehand.
Romain


2014/1/24 Romain Ziba <romain.ziba at gmail.com>

> 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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