[Openstack] Are multiple neutron plugins on a server supported?

2014-02-17 Thread nishant kumar
Hi All, While setting up a neutron plugin (like ovswitch, mellanox etc), we need to specify plugin name in /etc/neutron/neutron.conf (on the neutron server node) as follows: core_plugin =neutron.plugins.mlnx.mlnx_plugin.MellanoxEswitchPlugin My query is: Is there a way to specify and use multi

Re: [Openstack] Are multiple neutron plugins on a server supported?

2014-02-17 Thread Salvatore Orlando
Hi Nishant, unfortunately Neutron at the moment supports only a single plugin for each service. This means you can only specify a single core_plugin. If your goal is to support multiple backend technologies in your deployment, you should perhaps have a look at the ML2 where deployment of multiple

Re: [Openstack] Are multiple neutron plugins on a server supported?

2014-02-17 Thread nishant kumar
Salvatore, Thanks for your response. I will look at ML2. I guess such capability will require the option of passing 'Plugin Name' to the first level API so that request can be forwarded to the right plugin. I will try to see whether ML2 works this way.   Thanks, Nishant On Monday, February 1

Re: [Openstack] Are multiple neutron plugins on a server supported?

2014-02-25 Thread Irena Berezovsky
review for Icehouse release: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/72854/. BR, Irena From: Salvatore Orlando [mailto:sorla...@nicira.com] Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 11:02 AM To: nishant kumar Cc: Open Stack List Subject: Re: [Openstack] Are multiple neutron plugins on a server supported? Hi Nishant