On Nov 29, 2015, at 8:19 PM, Simon Weller <swel...@ena.com> wrote: > Nux, > > The two most deployed SDN solutions are Vmware NSX-MH (Nicara) and Nuage VSP > (Alcatel-Lucent). Neither are cheap! > We've been evaluating whether we're going to run a POC on Nuage, as it does > have some very cool features including service chaining. > Most of the other SDN plugins within CS are either very alpha, or haven't > received any updates in quite a while. > I polled the dev list list a few months back and it didn't appear anyone on > the lists were running (or willing to talk about) Big Switch, Midonet or > Stratosphere.
Midonet and Stratosphere are pretty much abandoned. So is the open contrail driver. Big Switch should work as it was updated recently and should be in 4.6 (let me cc KC Wange who did the refactor recently). The opendaylight and native GRE have always been beta, and you are correct that they have not received much attention. > I know someone built the start of a plugin for Open Daylight, but it hasn't > seen any development since then. We even reached out to Midonet, offering to > pay for support and they told us to install Openstack ;-) > > We have the native KVM VXLAN implementation running in our lab and it seems > to work very well. We went 100% 10/40GB using open platform switches and > Cumulus linux. Good to know. > > Our main interest in SDN is to provide more advanced traffic steering and > security features later. > > - Si > > > > > > ________________________________________ > From: Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> > Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2015 12:56 PM > To: Cloudstack Users List > Cc: dev > Subject: What SDN are you using? > > Hello, > > So besides the folks using Nicira, can anyone recommend any other SDN thing > or should I stay with v(x)lans? > I'm kind of removed from this side of things since my deployments tend to be > with Security Grups in a single or few VLANs, any suggestions welcome, > preferably free/foss. > > Lucian > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro
