[ovirt-users] [RFI] oVirt 3.6 Planning

Livnat Peer lpeer at redhat.com
Tue Sep 16 07:17:34 UTC 2014


On 09/15/2014 04:10 PM, Daniel Helgenberger wrote:
> Hello Livnat,
> On 15.09.2014 14:46, Livnat Peer wrote:
>> On 09/15/2014 03:15 PM, Daniel Helgenberger wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> +1 for the iso uploader,
>>> +1 for hostusb in UI
>>> +1 EL 7 (on the roadmap anyway?)
>>>
>>> With hostusb some more host-dev virtualization could be added. Top of my
>>> list is:
>>> - SR-IOV
>>> - NPV
>>> - VFIO
>>>
>>> These things could be handled on cluster level - hypervisors need to
>>> have the same hardware configuration anyway.
>>>
>>> Also, I think its time to add official support for OpenVswitch?
>>>
>> Are you looking for a specific functionality that is available via
>> OpenVswitch (=OVS)?
>> also we have the Neutron integration where we use OVS.
> I think its sufficient to say OVS is a 'real' modern switch while plain
> ol' linux bridge is not (so much any more). Of curse, maybe implementing
> other things like macvtap and / or SR-IOV achieves just the same thing
> (at least for me, as I then mange vlans/trunks and QoS, Spanning Tree
> ect. on my switches).
> 
> I know you can point on OpenStack integration because you get those
> features for 'free' (see Ceph). But what about users like me who do not
> wish / can / should implement the whole OpenStack but rather want to run
> 'plain' oVirt?
> I think this might not be a desirable way to add / modernize features as
> it creates a huge overhead (at least in my use case, medium business. I
> did this once for Glance 'just' to get a way to more easily handle
> import / export of image files, now I need to implement Neutron 'just'
> to get OVS?).
> 
> Don't get me wrong - OpenStack integration is a wonderful thing witch
> leaves room for expansion - later on.
> 
> Thanks!

Hi Daniel,

We did a lot of work in VDSM to make it more pluggable. part of it was
to extract the LB specific implementation to a configurator which
enables adding support to OVS. Take a look at -

http://www.ovirt.org/Feature/NetworkReloaded#Network_configurators

We did not implement the OVS configurator, but it's an option we should
look into.

It would help if you can specify concrete work that you are doing with
OVS, is it just a general, traditional work or are you using the flows
in OVS, other?


Livnat


>>
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>  
>>> On 12.09.2014 14:23, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>>> With oVirt 3.5 nearing GA, time to ask for "what do you want to see in 
>>>> oVirt 3.6"?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>     Itamar
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