Hi, Salman. There are a few OpenStack/Quantum people on this list, but I
suspect you'll have better luck on the main OpenStack list:
openst...@lists.launchpad.net
--Justin
On Apr 26, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Salman Malik wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to learn the functionality of Quantum plugins used in OpenStack.
> I have read through the Quantum Admin Guide and had few basic/quick question
> about quantum and OVS interaction with it :
>
>
> 1) OVS can have ports in which vNICS can be plugged, so why does it need to
> use an integration bridge for connecting all VMs on the same node to a
> network?
>
> 2) The OVS quantum plugin seems to implement the core API functions and
> (viewing the code) I concluded that it just makes maintains the logical
> mappings e.g. b/w net IDs and VLAN IDs in a database. So how is this mapping
> implemented on the actual ports of OVS? Is it the OVS quantum agent
> responsible for directing the packets to correct input/output ports based on
> the updates that it gets from the database?
>
> 3) The quantum admin guide says that the nova client will be the main user of
> quantum and will interact with it via REST API, so it would be nice if
> someone can point me to the code (file path name etc.) where this happens.
>
> Thanks,
> Salman
>
> PS: What is the purpose of Quantum Manager in this architecture and where
> should I look for its code?
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