There is still the security filtering issue ( https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/ovs-security-filtering) which prevent some cloud operator from using OVS.
Do you have a workaround to use security group with OVS in folsom? On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Dan Wendlandt <d...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:23 AM, andi abes <andi.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > late to the party... but I'll dabble. > > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Chris Wright <chr...@sous-sol.org> > wrote: > >> * rob_hirschf...@dell.com (rob_hirschf...@dell.com) wrote: > >>> We've been discussing using Open vSwitch as the basis for non-Quantum > Nova Networking deployments in Folsom. While not Quantum, it feels like > we're bringing Nova Networking a step closer to some of the core > technologies that Quantum uses. > >> > >> To what end? > > > > OVS provides much more robust monitoring and operational facilities > > (e.g sFlow monitoring, better switch table visibility etc). > > You won't find any disagreement from me about OVS having more advanced > capabilities :) > > > It also provides a linux-bridge compatibility layer (ovs-brcompatd > > [1]), which should work out-of-box with the linux-bridge. As such, > > switching to using OVS rather than the linux bridge could be done > > without any code changes to nova, just deployment changes (e.g. ensure > > that ovs-brcompatd is running to intercept brctl ioctl's - [2]). > > Using ovs-brcompatd would be possible, though some distros do not > package and run it by default and in general it is not the "preferred" > way to run things according to email on the OVS mailing list. > > > > > For the more adventurous, there could be any number of interesting > > scenarios enabled by having access to ovs capabilities (e.g. > > tunneling) > > Tunneling is definitely a huge benefit of OVS, but you still need > someone to setup the tunnels and direct packets into them correctly. > That's is exactly what the Quantum OVS plugin does and it is > completely open source and freely available, so if people want to > experiment with OVS tunneling, using Quantum would seem like the > obvious way to do this. > > Dan > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dan Wendlandt > Nicira, Inc: www.nicira.com > twitter: danwendlandt > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > openstack-...@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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