Ryota, Thanks for your invitation. Unfortunately I did not join the summit. Wish you had a good time and enjoy the summit ;). However I am really interested in your baremetal + SDN solution. Would you mind elaborate a bit more about the architecture and design of the solution?
Regards, Tim On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Tim Chim <fsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi fellow stacker, > > I am designing for a Baremetal stack with SDN support recently and would > like to seek for the help from you all for how to do so. > > I am building an automated testing framework on top of Openstack Havana. > For performance and platform sake I would need to provision my stack using > baremetal driver (Not Ironic). But on the other hand I also need the > network virtualization provided by neutron in order to maximize resource > utilization. Therefore I started looking for SDN solutions for the > baremetal use case. My network infrastructure is from Cisco and so I > started with Cisco plugin within Neutron. > > According to [1], I found that the plugin pretty much supported all > functionality for the virtualized VM case (i.e. dynamical VLAN creation and > VLAN tag propagation from controller to compute host). But for baremetal > case, it seems that the solution would not work as there is no OVS agent > running on the BM node. > > Since information about baremetal + SDN is quit lacking so I wonder if > anybody here has tried baremetal + SDN before and could share with me your > experience in doing so? Or it is simply impossible to do SDN with baremetal > driver? And how about the case for Ironic? Thanks. > > Regards, > Tim > > Reference: > [1] - > http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-3000-series-switches/data_sheet_c78-727737.html >
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