[Openstack] Some doubts regarding the interaction among the ovs-plugin and ovs-agent

JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso juanfra.rodriguez.cardoso at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 07:22:30 UTC 2014


Hi:

It may be useful these post series from Ronen Kofman:
https://blogs.oracle.com/ronen/entry/diving_into_openstack_network_architecture

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JuanFra Rodriguez Cardoso


2014-07-14 11:11 GMT+02:00 Ramana Reddy <gtvrreddy at gmail.com>:

> Hi All,
>
> I would like to know the interaction among the OVS-agent at
> Hypervisor/Compute node
> and OVS-agent at network node and OVS-plugin at neutron server.
>
>
> I need the following details:
>
> 1. Normally when we boot the VM, VM gets a virtual port from OVS to its
> virtual interface.
>     How its different in openstack. Who will configure the IP address and
> other tunnlling
>     mechanisms to the VM. How they effect the ovs-agent in network node
> and OVS-plugin
>     in the compute node.
> 2. When we create a virtual network through API, what happens to
> OVS-plugin and
>     to the OVS-agents. Who updates the database and when it updates.
> 3. What is the typical sequence of of events from booting to the VM and
> creating a virtual network and sending packet among the VMs. Who initiates
> first.
>
> Thanks,
> Ramana.
>
>
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