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[hitesh wadekar <hitesh.wadekar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Salman,

Please see the inline comments.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Salman Malik <salmanmk@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> I am trying to learn the functionality of Quantum plugins used in
> OpenStack. I have read through the Quantum Admin Guide and had few
> basic/quick question about quantum and OVS interaction with it:
>
>
> 1) OVS can have ports in which vNICS can be plugged, so why does it need
> to use an integration bridge for connecting all VMs on the same node to a
> network?
>
[Hitesh]:
As far as I know that OVS have more features over the Linux bridge, for
example, VM isolation, mobility and security. These can be configured by
remote controller. To help and gian the control on all these activities the
integration bridge is required. I am not sure about it but I Dan or
Salvotore can explain this better way. You can find the more information
here http://openvswitch.org/support/

2) The OVS quantum plugin seems to implement the core API functions and
(viewing the code) I concluded that it just makes maintains the logical
mappings e.g. b/w net IDs and VLAN IDs in a database. So how is this
mapping implemented on the actual ports of OVS? Is it the OVS quantum agent
responsible for directing the packets to correct input/output ports based
on the updates that it gets from the database?
[Hitesh]:
OVS agent is responsible for to update the database(accoding to actions
have been told) for the local server as well Quantum server. As far as I
know OVS quantum is not responsible for directing the packets to correct
in/op,  This job is hadled by OVS core module on the server (datapath). OVS
agent only updates the database and creation bridge etc.. Dan or
Salvotore can be explained more...

3) The quantum admin guide says that the nova client will be the main user
of quantum and will interact with it via REST API, so it would be nice if
someone can point me to the code (file path name etc.) where this happens.
[Hitesh]:
You can see the devstack script where we are configuring nove-network to
quantum. thats the enry point for the nova-network to communicate to
quantum. I will share soon more on this.

However, I tried my best to give to these answers. Please feel free to
correct me if anything needs to share more.

Salman, Let me know if you want more info about this. I will be happy to
share

Thanks,
Salman

PS: What is the purpose of Quantum Manager in this architecture and where
should I look for its code?
[Hitesh]: As I am working on different machine, I will share this with
details to you soon.

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