Hi Eric,
My understanding as follows:
- XenServer with basic networking only works when using the “old” linux
switching backend, not OVS, due to the requirements to manage security groups.
- OVS plugin comes into play in advanced zones where you want to use SDN/L3
overlay networks to provide guest isolation (which you don’t do in basic zones).
- Keep in mind this only applies when you want to use SDN, if you want to use
standard VLAN based advanced zones then XenServer will just use OVS as it’s
standard switching backend (since XS6.2).
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Dag Sonstebo
Cloud Architect
ShapeBlue
On 31/01/2017, 14:42, "GoGoZoom PDX" <gogozoom...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm confused by the documentation that I've found:
This page states that "If the XenServer host is part of a zone that uses
basic networking, disable Open vSwitch (OVS)":
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-installation/en/4.9/hypervisor/xenserver.html#physical-networking-setup-for-xenserver
This page states that "The following hypervisors are supported by the OVS
Plugin: XenServer >= 4.0":
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/networking/ovs-plugin.html
Will the OVS Plugin allow CS to manage XenServer when using the Open
vSwitch network backend (in a Basic Networking scenario and/or an Advanced
Networking scenario)?
TIA,
Eric Pretorious
Portland, Oregon
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