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Dan Wendlandt wrote:

>In my experience working with customers, people typically either dip their toe in to start by just running ESXi/vSphere with
>nova-network, or they have decided on NSX from the get-go and start with Neutron.   If you're just looking for nova-network,
>VOVA makes it really easy to do a basic nova-network setup: https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-24626

We’re running Quantum (in Grizzly) with OvS+GRE overlay networking with KVM only. NSX and VMWare/Nicira are among the SDN vendors who claim to be able to integrate ESXi with KVM in a multi-hypervisor OpenStack cloud, but they’re not the only one. There are a number of other vendors who claim they can also integrate ESXi with KVM in a common virtual network.

We’re not ready to just decide to go with VMWare/Nicira without first evaluating all the options.

However, we’re getting some pressure to support ESXi in a timeframe that doesn’t allow for completing the SDN evaluation. I’m trying to figure out if we can integrate ESXi into our KVM based OvS+GRE/Neutron (post-upgrade from Grizzly) cloud in the interim, or if we need to push back and say that we simply can’t support ESXi in the requested timeframe.
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