Hello,

Since some days, I try to make Opencontrail work with vCenter, in vCenter-only 
environment and I have some questions. My goal for now is just to have a 
working Proof Of Concept of contrail/vCenter integration with virtual networks 
creations and security policies; in a test environment.

First, for the installation :

1)      The quickstart guide 
(http://www.opencontrail.org/opencontrail-quick-start-guide/) mentions some the 
package, but they seem to be only until version 2.2, not 3.X branch. Are there 
some wrapper packages for 3.X branches ?

2)      http://www.opencontrail.org/rdo-openstack-opencontrail-integration says 
we can get the packages on the Juniper website. When I tried it seemed to say I 
had to be Juniper customer. Are the Debian packages supposed to be publicly 
available ?

3)      Is there an up-to-date recommended installation/configuration guide I 
should use ?

Secondly, for the integration with vCenter :

I was able to install contrail 3.2 and I tried this installation :

·         One controller

·         One vRouter

·         One vCenter

·         One ES

1)      The target configuration was dvswtich underlay 
(https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/contrail3.0/topics/task/installation/vcenter-as-compute-deployment-scenarios.html#distswitch).
 In this configuration, my vRouter is supposed to have 2 interfaces : one in 
the Contrail-fab-pg (dvs-fab), for uplink and one in VM-PG (in the dvs I called 
contrail-dvs). Should the VM-PG be created manually in vCenter or should it be 
created in contrail web UI ? Or did I mistunderstood the picture, and VM-PG is 
not a port group but just a symbol to say "all the port groups used by VM" ?

2)      If I understood contrail-vrouter-agent.conf, it seems that the vhost0 
interface (linked to the VM-PG port group) should have a valid IP 
configuration, with a gateway. What's the point ? I can see why it's useful for 
the uplink interface, but I'd thought that the vhost0 interface would be 
dynamically managed by the controller and without gateway (the gateway being on 
the uplink).

3)      If I had 2 ESXI in my vCenter (which I actually have, but I only use 
one for my PoC), should all the dvswitch be deployed on all the ESXI ? Or are 
they local ? I'm a little bit confused because in my mind "d" stands for 
distributed but with 1 vRouter/ESXI, it seems logic to have "local" dvswitches

4)      With my 3.2 installation, I got an error in the sync between the 
controller and vCenter (contrail-vcenter-plugin-stdout.log) :
[2017-06-01 06:34:36,648] [DEBUG] [Thread-3:VCenterDB@937][] [ Ignoring vm: 
VM01]
[2017-06-01 06:34:36,736] [INFO ] [Thread-3:VCenterDB@1017][] [Skipping VMI in 
unmanaged network vmware-vcenter-testvlan]
[2017-06-01 06:34:36,740] [INFO ] [Thread-3:VCenterDB@1017][] [Skipping VMI in 
unmanaged network backup-vlanfake-false]
[2017-06-01 06:34:36,740] [DEBUG] [Thread-3:VCenterDB@937][] [ Ignoring vm: 
VM02]
[2017-06-01 06:34:36,832] [ERROR] [Thread-3:VCenterNotify@654][] [Error in 
sync: java.lang.NullPointerException]
[2017-06-01 06:34:36,833] [ERROR] [Thread-3:VCenterNotify@655][] 
[java.lang.NullPointerException]

I noticed this issue  
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/juniperopenstack/+bug/1550603) but it's supposed to 
be fixed in release 3.0.
Every 2 seconds, contrail connects to vmware and the connection is killed 
without any synchronization. I tried to see if it was a known issue but found 
nothing (this issue was the reason I tried to install another version of 
contrail). Do you have an idea how I can fix/troubleshoot this ?

Thank you very much
Regards
Grégoire



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