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Re: Vxlan support to Fuel 6.0

 

Hello,

it may take forever (at least another year). Look at the
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/38640/3, it received negs because of
hope of reviewers for ovs part to receive full vxlan support, so you
may revive it and use as a MOS neutron extension.

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Sergii Golovatiuk
<sgolovatiuk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Fuel doesn't support VxLan at the moment. Fuel developers had R&D project
> investigating VxLAN features and OpenStack readiness for VxLAN.
> Unfortunately, Openstack components such as Open vSwitch doesn't support all
> VxLAN features. Open vSwitch has very limited support of VxLAN without
> multicast making tunneling from everyone to everyone over UDP instead of
> multicast support. In this case VxLAN doesn't have advantages over GRE
> tunneling. It's just yet another tunneling technology. When Open vSwitch
> supports multicast and other RFC features, VxLAN will be added to Fuel. I
> hope this helps.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Sergii Golovatiuk,
> Skype #golserge
> IRC #holser
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Nurit Vilosny <nuritv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is fuel 6.0 going to support vxlan?
>>
>> what kernel version will it support? Is it going to support Ubuntu 14.04
>> or CentOS 7.0?
>>
>> we want to add support for Vxlan offload over Mellanox’s Nics and I was
>> wondering if it will be possible
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Nurit Vilosny
>>
>> SW Cloud Solutions Manager
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
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