On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Hugo Trippaers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Chip, > > I'm planning on supporting the "new" version with Nicira NVP support directly > built in. I can have a look at the other solution as well. It should not be > too much trouble to integrate it. The main issue with supporting new > hypervisors is to patch the hypervisor resource to set the correct parameters > on the Vif when starting a vm. The actual plugin doing the NVP integration > doesn't need any modifications to support more hypervisors. > > The current hacky approach with the vm image still delivers a decent > performance, but nowhere near the performance you would get on a Xen host (or > KVM). If there is any interest in getting the support for it done, I'm game > :-) >
Honestly, I wasn't suggesting that we do that... it seems exceptionally complex for the value you get. I'm all for waiting for the "integrated experience". I was mostly curious. -chip > Other stuff that is on my wish list is support for security groups using the > existing NVP filter engine. > > Cheers, > > Hugo > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad > > Op 23 jan. 2013 om 21:05 heeft "Chip Childers" <[email protected]> > het volgende geschreven: > >> Hugo, >> >> I was just talking with the folks at Nicira, and had the current >> VMware integration approach explained to me. AFAIK, you end up >> needing to have a VM running OVS on the host, with two VMware virtual >> switches (one for your overlay transport, and one for your guest VMs >> to attach to). Was this the model you were considering working to >> orchestrate? Or were you considering waiting to see how the Nicira >> technology will be better integrated into ESXi? >> >> One one hand, the current approach is absolutely a hack (and prone to >> performance issues). On the other hand, waiting for a better >> ESX/Nicira integration may take a good amount of time, and probably >> won't be backward compatible with older ESXi versions. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -chip >
