[Openstack] Rackspace abandons Open vSwitch ?

Damon Wang damon.devops at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 03:30:51 UTC 2014


Hi Martinx,

As far as I know OpenContrail lack some important features, some of them
are rely on Contrail which the not opensource version and need to use
Juniper's private hardware.

And If you are face a public cloud, I can't find a better solution rather
than VxLan.

Regards,
Damon

2014-10-10 10:17 GMT+08:00 Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>:

> Just for the record, I gave up on Neutron L3 Router, powered by GRE/VXLAN
> tunnels. There are too many problems on this architecture.
> I'm using Flat/VLAN Provider Networks right now (still with OpenvSwitch
> but, no problems), I'm looking for a new solution (with IPv6), I'll take a
> look at OpenContrail!
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 9 October 2014 20:35, Rudrajit Tapadar <
> rudrajit.tapadar+osgen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> At Symantec's Cloud Platform Engineering, we have deployed
>> OpenStack+OpenContrail at a fairly large scale. I can't give you exact
>> numbers, but you can get some data points from our SDN evaluation
>> presentation in the Atlanta summit:
>> https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/session-videos/presentation/software-defined-networking-performance-and-architecture-evaluation
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Raghu Vadapalli <rvatspacket at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 09/29/2014 01:52 PM, Tim Bell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are there any references for people running OpenContrail at scale ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Though reference are good to have, in general, L3 networks are known to
>>> scale better than L2 networks.
>>> Having said that, the complexity of two large frameworks  OpenStack +
>>> OpenContrail working together nicely in
>>> deployment is not known to me. Any ideas ?
>>>
>>>    *From:* NAPIERALA, MARIA H [mailto:mn1921 at att.com <mn1921 at att.com>]
>>> *Sent:* 29 September 2014 19:26
>>> *To:* dennisml at conversis.de
>>> *Cc:* openstack at lists.openstack.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Rackspace abandons Open vSwitch ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ……
>>>
>>>   > What are the alternatives though? As far as I know the regular linux
>>>
>>> > bridge lacks most of the features of OVS and these are the only to
>>>
>>> > options I've played with so far. Is the a third alternative out there
>>>
>>> > that they've switched to?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> One alternative is OpenContrail vRouter as ML3 plugin. It meets the
>>> scale and feature requirements.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Maria
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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