[Openstack] Network interfaces with VMware & Neutron OVS

Romain Ziba romain.ziba at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 09:28:22 UTC 2014


Hey,
I found that it's openstack-neutron-nicira to be installed.

Regards.


2014-01-27 Romain Ziba <romain.ziba at gmail.com>

> Hello,
> thanks for your replies. Do you know which repo I should use to get...
> quantum-plugin-nicira? neutron-plugin-nicira? neutron-plugin-vmware? I am
> working on centOS 6.5.
>
> Thanks beforehand.
>
>
> 2014-01-25 Armando M. <armamig at gmail.com>
>
> The plugin is only being rebranded at the moment. More architectural
>> changes are on the way but we recognize that backward compatibility is
>> paramount therefore we'll strive to maintain it.
>>
>>  As far as Havana is concerned everything is still the same. If you
>> are working against master you can track the progress of the
>> rebranding here:
>>
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/nicira-plugin-renaming
>>
>> At this point everything installs as usual.
>>
>> Hope this help!
>> Armando
>>
>> On 24 January 2014 06:26, Romain Ziba <romain.ziba at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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...
>> >>>
>> >>> However, in this doc, the problem is not raised:
>> >>> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/confi...
>> >>>
>> >>> 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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