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From: "David Jaša" djasa@redhat.com To: vdsm-devel@fedorahosted.org, arch@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 11:23:21 AM Subject: Re: [vdsm] vdsm networking changes proposal
Hi,
Alon Bar-Lev píše v Ne 17. 02. 2013 v 15:57 -0500:
Hello Antoni,
Great work! I am very excited we are going this route, it is first of many to allow us to be run on different distributions. I apologize I got to this so late.
Notes for the model, I am unsure if someone already noted.
I think that the abstraction should be more than entity and properties.
For example:
nic is a network interface bridge is a network interface and ports network interfaces bound is a network interface and slave network interfaces vlan is a network interface and vlan id
network interface can have:
- name
- ip config
- state
- mtu
this way it would be easier to share common code that handle pure interfaces.
I don't quite understand the 'Team' configurator, are you suggesting a provider for each technology?
Team is a new implementation of bonding in Linux kernel IIRC.
bridge
- iproute2 provider
- ovs provider
- ifcfg provider
bond
- iproute2
- team
- ovs
- ifcfg
vlan
- iproute2
- ovs
- ifcfg
So we can get a configuration of: bridge:iproute2 bond:team vlan:ovs
?
I also would like us to explore a future alternative of the network configuration via crypto vpn directly from qemu to another qemu, the idea is to have a kerberos like key per layer3(or layer2) destination, while communication is encrypted at user space and sent to a flat network. The advantage of this is that we manage logical network and not physical network, while relaying on hardware to find the best route to destination. The question is how and if we can provide this via the suggestion abstraction. But maybe it is too soon to address this kind of future.
Isn't it better to separate the two goals and persuade qemu developers to implement TLS for migration connections?
Sure :) But someone/something will need to configure it... :)
For the open questions:
- Yes, I think that mode should be non-persistence, persistence
providers should emulate non-persistence operations by diff between what they have and the goal.
- Once vdsm is installed, the mode it runs should be fixed. So the
only question is what is the selected profile during host deployment.
I think that if we can avoid aliases it would be nice.
Keeping the least persistence information would be flexible. I
would love to see a zero persistence mode available, for example if management interface is dhcp or manually configured.
I am very fond of the iproute2 configuration, and don't mind if administrator configures the management interface manually. I think this can supersede the ifcfg quite easily in most cases. In these rare cases administrator use ovirt to modify the network interface we may consider delegating persistence to totally different model. But as far as I understand the problem is solely related to the management connectivity, so we can implement a simple bootstrap of non-persistence module to reconstruct the management network setup from vdsm configuration instead of persisting it to the distribution width configuration.
Regards, Alon Bar-Lev
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From: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" asegurap@redhat.com To: arch@ovirt.org, vdsm-devel@fedorahosted.org Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 12:54:23 AM Subject: vdsm networking changes proposal
Hi fellow oVirters!
The network team and a few others have toyed in the past with several important changes like using open vSwitch, talking D-BUS to NM, making the network non-persistent, etc.
It is with some of this changes in mind that we (special thanks go to Livnat Peer, Dan Kenigsberg and Igor Lvovsky) have worked in a proposal for a new architecture for vdsm's networking part. This proposal is intended to make our software more adaptable to new components and use cases, eliminate distro dependancies as much as possible and improve the responsiveness and scalability of the networking operations.
To do so, it proposes an object oriented representation of the different elements that come into play in our networking use cases.
But enough of introduction, please go to the feature page that we have put together and help us with your feedback, questions proposals and extensions.
http://www.ovirt.org/Feature/NetworkReloaded
Best regards,
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