Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad
Op 23 jan. 2013 om 22:04 heeft "Chip Childers" <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: > 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. Ok :-). I'll put it on a shelf for a rainy Sunday afternoon then. ;-) > > -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 >>
