[Openstack] Rackspace abandons Open vSwitch ?

Rudrajit Tapadar rudrajit.tapadar+osgen at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 17:13:19 UTC 2014


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As far as I know OpenContrail lack some important features,
>

>> Can you please elaborate which important features are you talking about?


> some of them are rely on Contrail which the not opensource version
>

>> The commercial version is the open source version. There is no separate
code.


> and need to use Juniper's private hardware.
>

>> This is not true. It is a software only overlay solution that works over
the IP fabric. So it is irrelevant what hardware you have in the underlay
as long as you have unicast IP connectivity. We use a mix of gears from
multiple vendors.


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

>> OpenContrail supports VXLAN too.


>
> 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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