Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-25 Thread Lucas Alvares Gomes
Hi, Thanks all! I will start working on it pretty soon then. > Lucas, I support you moving forward with 1), because: > a) it is more simple and straightforward, yet the configuration on > chassis won't (shouldn't) create compatibility issue > b) it doesn't conflict with further optimization with

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-22 Thread Han Zhou
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:36 AM Daniel Alvarez wrote: > > > > > > On 22 Mar 2019, at 13:22, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Getting back to this topic because we do have people (read clients) > > interested in this work for their Telco/Edge computing uses cases as a > > way to prev

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:22:50AM +, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote: > Hi, > > Getting back to this topic because we do have people (read clients) > interested in this work for their Telco/Edge computing uses cases as a > way to preventing each edge site to try to create tunnels with every > node

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-22 Thread Daniel Alvarez
> On 22 Mar 2019, at 13:22, Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote: > > Hi, > > Getting back to this topic because we do have people (read clients) > interested in this work for their Telco/Edge computing uses cases as a > way to preventing each edge site to try to create tunnels with every > node on ever

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-22 Thread Lucas Alvares Gomes
Hi, Getting back to this topic because we do have people (read clients) interested in this work for their Telco/Edge computing uses cases as a way to preventing each edge site to try to create tunnels with every node on every site. Also, another request we saw which this feature would help is rel

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 10:32:29PM -0800, Han Zhou wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:06 AM Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 09:39:37PM -0800, Han Zhou wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 7:24 PM Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > > What's the effective difference between an OVN deployment wit

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-06 Thread Han Zhou
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 9:06 AM Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 09:39:37PM -0800, Han Zhou wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 7:24 PM Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > What's the effective difference between an OVN deployment with 3 zones, > > > and a collection of 3 OVN deployments? Is it simpl

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 09:39:37PM -0800, Han Zhou wrote: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 7:24 PM Ben Pfaff wrote: > > What's the effective difference between an OVN deployment with 3 zones, > > and a collection of 3 OVN deployments? Is it simply that the 3-zone > > deployment shares databases? Is that

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-06 Thread Daniel Alvarez Sanchez
Thanks Dan for chiming in and others as well for your feedback! I also thought of having separate OVN deployments but that introduces the drawbacks that Han pointed out adding - maybe a lot of - burden to the CMS. Separate zones in the same OVN deployment will add minimal changes (at deployment si

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-06 Thread Dan Sneddon
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 9:40 PM Han Zhou wrote: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 7:24 PM Ben Pfaff wrote: > > What's the effective difference between an OVN deployment with 3 zones, > > and a collection of 3 OVN deployments? Is it simply that the 3-zone > > deployment shares databases? Is that a signif

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-05 Thread Han Zhou
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 7:24 PM Ben Pfaff wrote: > What's the effective difference between an OVN deployment with 3 zones, > and a collection of 3 OVN deployments? Is it simply that the 3-zone > deployment shares databases? Is that a significant advantage? Hi Ben, based on the discussions there

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 06:48:03PM +0100, Daniel Alvarez Sanchez wrote: > Just wanted to throw an idea here about introducing availability zones > (AZ) concept in OVN and get implementation ideas. From a CMS > perspective, it makes sense to be able to implement some sort of > logical division of re

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-04 Thread Han Zhou
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 4:48 PM Dan Sneddon wrote: > > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 5:34 AM Lucas Alvares Gomes > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 1:52 AM Han Zhou wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:58 AM Daniel Alvarez Sanchez >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > Hi folks, >> > > >> >

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-04 Thread Dan Sneddon
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 5:34 AM Lucas Alvares Gomes wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 1:52 AM Han Zhou wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:58 AM Daniel Alvarez Sanchez > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > Just wanted to throw an idea here about introducing availability zones >

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-04 Thread Lucas Alvares Gomes
Hi, On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 1:52 AM Han Zhou wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:58 AM Daniel Alvarez Sanchez > wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > Just wanted to throw an idea here about introducing availability zones > > (AZ) concept in OVN and get implementation ideas. From a CMS > > perspective

Re: [ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-03-01 Thread Han Zhou
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 9:58 AM Daniel Alvarez Sanchez wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Just wanted to throw an idea here about introducing availability zones > (AZ) concept in OVN and get implementation ideas. From a CMS > perspective, it makes sense to be able to implement some sort of > logical divisio

[ovs-discuss] OVN: availability zones concept

2019-02-28 Thread Daniel Alvarez Sanchez
Hi folks, Just wanted to throw an idea here about introducing availability zones (AZ) concept in OVN and get implementation ideas. From a CMS perspective, it makes sense to be able to implement some sort of logical division of resources into failure domains to maximize their availability. In this