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Re: [Quantum] Scale out

 

Yes, Grizzly will give you more options when scaling out the L3 gateway
node.  I'd suggest pausing for a bit until that new functionality is
included in the OpenStack documentation.

Dan

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Simon Pasquier <pasquier.simon@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello Heiko,
> I think that there is a blueprint [1] currently in progress to address
> your needs. The Quantum developers might be able to give us more
> information.
> Simon
> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-scheduler
>
>
> 2013/3/1 Heiko Krämer <kraemer@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>  Heyho Guys,
>>
>> i'm trying to setup Openstack with Quantum. That's not a big deal and
>> all components are running but Quantum L3 agent and dhcp agent runs on
>> one node (network node). So this node are a GW for external and internal
>> traffic. This topology will be a bottleneck in the near future.
>> My goal is now to scale out Quantum on other nodes like nova-network.
>>
>>
>> My first idea was to create a second router and configure this router on
>> a second node (l3 agent router_id ) with a second external network (l3
>> agent network_id). I can use now a second network node with a second
>> router and second external network to balance the traffic between this
>> tow nodes.
>>
>> So before i had: 1Gbit Uplink to WAN => 1 x network node with 1 ext NIC
>> Now: 2 x 1 Gbit Uplink to WAN => 2 x network node with 1 ext NIC
>>
>>
>> The main goal is to use the external NIC's of each compute node or of
>> many Network nodes but the maintainability, which vm or tenant are use
>> which network node, is not really good.
>>
>>
>> I would prefere i can Quantum scale out of the box and Quantum manage
>> port mapping on different nodes like a port scheduler mapper :)
>>
>>
>> Have anyone experience with that ? Ideas or network topologies ?
>>
>>
>>
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>> Heiko
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