On 10/23/18 1:51 PM, Simon Weller wrote:
> We've also been using VXLAN on KVM for all of our isolated VPC guest networks
> for quite a long time now. As Andrija pointed out, make sure you increase the
> max_igmp_memberships param and also put an ip address on each interface host
> VXLAN interface in the same subnet for all hosts that will share networking,
> or multicast won't work.
>
Thanks! So you are saying that all hypervisors need to be in the same L2
network or are you routing the multicast?
My idea was that each POD would be an isolated Layer 3 domain and that a
VNI would span over the different Layer 3 networks.
I don't like STP and other Layer 2 loop-prevention systems.
Wido
>
> - Si
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:21 AM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: VXLAN and KVm experiences
>
>
>
> On 10/23/18 11:21 AM, Andrija Panic wrote:
>> Hi Wido,
>>
>> I have "pioneered" this one in production for last 3 years (and suffered a
>> nasty pain of silent drop of packages on kernel 3.X back in the days
>> because of being unaware of max_igmp_memberships kernel parameters, so I
>> have updated the manual long time ago).
>>
>> I never had any issues (beside above nasty one...) and it works very well.
>
> That's what I want to hear!
>
>> To avoid above issue that I described - you should increase
>> max_igmp_memberships (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/igmp_max_memberships) - otherwise
>> with more than 20 vxlan interfaces, some of them will stay in down state
>> and have a hard traffic drop (with proper message in agent.log) with kernel
>>> 4.0 (or I silent, bitchy random packet drop on kernel 3.X...) - and also
>> pay attention to MTU size as well - anyway everything is in the manual (I
>> updated everything I though was missing) - so please check it.
>>
>
> Yes, the underlying network will all be 9000 bytes MTU.
>
>> Our example setup:
>>
>> We have i.e. bond.950 as the main VLAN which will carry all vxlan "tunnels"
>> - so this is defined as KVM traffic label. In our case it didn't make sense
>> to use bridge on top of this bond0.950 (as the traffic label) - you can
>> test it on your own - since this bridge is used only to extract child
>> bond0.950 interface name, then based on vxlan ID, ACS will provision
>> vxlan...@bond0.xxx and join this new vxlan interface to NEW bridge created
>> (and then of course vNIC goes to this new bridge), so original bridge (to
>> which bond0.xxx belonged) is not used for anything.
>>
>
> Clear, I indeed thought something like that would happen.
>
>> Here is sample from above for vxlan 867 used for tenant isolation:
>>
>> root@hostname:~# brctl show brvx-867
>>
>> bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
>> brvx-867 8000.2215cfce99ce no vnet6
>>
>> vxlan867
>>
>> root@hostname:~# ip -d link show vxlan867
>>
>> 297: vxlan867: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 8142 qdisc noqueue
>> master brvx-867 state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>> link/ether 22:15:cf:ce:99:ce brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 1
>> vxlan id 867 group 239.0.3.99 dev bond0.950 port 0 0 ttl 10 ageing 300
>>
>> root@ix1-c7-2:~# ifconfig bond0.950 | grep MTU
>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:8192 Metric:1
>>
>> So note how the vxlan interface has by 50 bytes smaller MTU than the
>> bond0.950 parent interface (which could affects traffic inside VM) - so
>> jumbo frames are needed anyway on the parent interface (bond.950 in example
>> above with minimum of 1550 MTU)
>>
>
> Yes, thanks! We will be using 1500 MTU inside the VMs, so all the
> networks underneath will be ~9k.
>
>> Ping me if more details needed, happy to help.
>>
>
> Awesome! We'll be doing a PoC rather soon. I'll come back with our
> experiences later.
>
> Wido
>
>> Cheers
>> Andrija
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 08:23, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just wanted to know if there are people out there using KVM with
>>> Advanced Networking and using VXLAN for different networks.
>>>
>>> Our main goal would be to spawn a VM and based on the network the NIC is
>>> in attach it to a different VXLAN bridge on the KVM host.
>>>
>>> It seems to me that this should work, but I just wanted to check and see
>>> if people have experience with it.
>>>
>>> Wido
>>>
>>
>>
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