Am Mittwoch, den 01.08.2012, 09:56 -0400 schrieb Andrew Cathrow:
From: "Mark Wu" wudxw@linux.vnet.ibm.com Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 8:59:14 AM Subject: Host network management roadmap inquiry
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quantum
Both the plugins openvswitch and linuxbridge stores abstract network entities (network, port) in database and create bridge/vlan via the tool ip/brctl or ovs-vsctl on demand. Only one bridge is created on one server and one vlan is created for each virtual network. That means that only one nic can be configured for vm network. It doesn't configure nic or bond even if openvswitch also supports bond. Both of traditional network stack configuration and quantum will be supported oVirt for different purpose, right?
good place to start : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Quantum_and_oVirt
Hey, besides these Quantum specific informations I'd also like to discuss where oVirt is going wrt to networking. Quantum is sure a nice solution for a project wide solution, but how can or should this be integrated into the underlying components like vdsm or node?
From a Node pov (feature as well as implementation wise) it is quite interesting if we should switch to openvswitch (which can then in turn used by quantum [via vdsm?]) or keep the linux bridge stuff.
There are also efforts on it's way (like teaming, the F17 feature) which we should keep an eye on, as this seems to land in network manager as an alternative(?) to the default bonding. It's also interesting how this performs with openvswitch.
Many changes on many sides and we should lay out the path a bit to find a direction where to go. There is already
http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Networking
which we could use to summarize the needed features, potential techniques and an over all plan.
Greetings fabian