[rhos-list] Nova-network v.s. Quantum in Openstack preview

[Shixiong Shang (shshang)]

Hi, Perry:

Thank you for the prompt response! Garry, if you can share with me the
procedure, I will be more than happy to try it out and provide you with
feedback.

Shixiong



    







On 2/5/13 3:53 PM, "Perry Myers" <pmyers at redhat.com> wrote:

>On 02/05/2013 03:45 PM, Shixiong Shang (shshang) wrote:
>> Hi, experts:
>> 
>> I am trying to install Redhat Openstack 2.0 (Folsom) preview on RHEL 6.4
>> beta. According to the Getting Started Guide, I can use "packstack" tool
>> to automate the installation. However, I noticed that a few parameters
>> in the tool still refer to "nove-network" as shown below.
>> 
>> CONFIG_NOVA_NETWORK_HOST
>> CONFIG_NOVA_NETWORK_PUBIF
>> CONFIG_NOVA_NETWORK_PRIVIF
>> CONFIG_NOVA_NETWORK_FIXEDRANGE
>> CONFIG_NOVA_NETWORK_FLOATRANGE
>> 
>> Does that mean the setup will still run on top of nova-network, or
>> nova-network will use quantum client plugin to communicate with Quantum
>> server?
>> 
>> In addition, I don't see any quantum related parameters are included in
>> the tool. When will it be available?
>
>Right now, PackStack only supports Nova Networking.  We will eventually
>have support for Quantum in PackStack, but that support is not completed
>yet.
>
>So if you specifically need to use Quantum, you would need to:
>* Use PackStack to install w/ Nova Networking
>* Manually convert from Nova Networking to Quantum
>
>Gary (cc'd) has a draft process for this, but it is still a little shaky.
>
>Gary can you share that process?  Perhaps Shixiong can try it out and
>give us feedback on whether it works for him or not.
>
>> Furthermore, does the tool support sub interface with VLAN TAGGING
>> enabled, such as eth2.277?
>
>I don't think so, but Derek would need to confirm.  I think this would
>be a feature enhancement.
>
>Perry