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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great update, Dan. Thank you!

-jay

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Dan Wendlandt <dan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> At the last OpenStack meeting, Vish asked me to send out an update on the
> Quantum project.  Here's some info:
> Quantum is a virtual network service, targeted at Openstack.  If you're not
> familiar with Quantum, please see:
> - http://wiki.openstack.org/Quantum
> - http://launchpad.net/quantum
> - http://www.slideshare.net/danwent/quantum-diablo-summary
> During the Diablo timeframe, we've been focused on creating a standalone
> Quantum service with a tenant API to create networks and attach devices to
> those networks.  This work has progressed at a rapid pace.  A beta is
> already available and we'll be finalizing our first official release,
> including a v1.0 version of the API, at the end of Diablo.  See:
>  https://code.launchpad.net/quantum
> The Quantum service has a pluggable backend.  More plugins are in the works,
> but currently there are plugins for two classes of switches:
> - Open vSwitch switches that perform software switching on any Linux-based
> systems (KVM and XenServer)
> - Cisco UCS and Nexus based systems leveraging 802.1qbh-enabled
> NICs  (merged today, congrats team!) .
> For those interested in something hands-on, I created a variant of Vish's
> nova.sh script and a simple automated demo you can do with an Ubuntu host
> using the Open vSwitch plugin:  http://wiki.openstack.org/QuantumOVSDemo
> Other major areas of focus for Diablo-4 release and beyond:
> -  Finalization of v1.0 API
> -  Integration with Nova + Melange (IPAM) using a new QuantumManager class
> in Nova
> -  GUI for network configuration based on OpenStack Dashboard
> -  API Extensions that expose advanced network capabilities (e.g., ACLs,
> QoS, Netflow)
> -  Jenkins integration.
> -  Better documentation (yay!)
> We're planning on proposing Quantum for OpenStack incubation at next week's
> PPB meeting.
> For those interested in the gory details of Quantum design + project
> discussions, you can join the public netstack email
> list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack (archives:
> https://lists.launchpad.net/netstack/).
> For everyone else, we'll do a better job of periodically communicating
> progress to the community at large.  Hopefully we'll be approved for
> incubation in which case we'll provide an update at the end of each main
> openstack meeting with the other incubated projects :)
> Dan
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