OpenStack Quantum integration feature page for 3.3

[Mike Kolesnik]

----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 03:20:45AM -0400, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > The feature page for integrating OpenStack Quantum into oVirt is
> > available on the wiki:
> > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Quantum_Integration
> >
> 
> A quote from "Network discovery":
> > Currently, we assume that the networks provided by the provider are
> > available on all hosts in the data center...
> 
> it is not completely clear who are "we" there. I suppose that you
> mean
> that Engine takes this assumption, and does not verify that a
> specific
> host is actually connectable by the network provider. That's not much
> worse than what Engine does elsewhere: it does not verify that
> network
> "green" in one host can actually connect with network "green" on
> another
> host.

"We" is oVirt as a whole.

Currently we do know which network is available on which host since the user set it up.
In the planned integration we wouldn't know, thus we will consider external network as "provided".

It is not quite the same as the example you gave about "green" network.

> 
> A quote from "Network provisioning":
> 
> > The network can be exported from oVirt into the network provider,
> > but
> > from that moment on it will be as if the network was discovered
> > from
> > the provider - i.e. if it goes out of sync, that's OK from oVirt's
> > perspective.
> 
> Could you explain what does "exporting a network from oVirt" means?
> Do you
> plan an API for that?

Yes, we plan to be able to create a network on the provider via oVirt, instead of having the user do it via the Quantum API.

> 
> Could you elaborate on why this feature depends on
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Device_Custom_Properties ?

We need this to specify custom properties per vNIC also for hot plug/wire.
Otherwise we won't be able to support these features for externally provided networks.

> 
> This feature heavily depends on http://www.ovirt.org/Network_Provider

Yes, it is an elaboration of the feture, not something independent.

> .
> Is there a real difference between the two? If not, I'd rename
> Network_Provider to Features/Network_Provider and have
> Quantum_Integration redirect to there.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan.
>