On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:24 PM, Stefano Zappa <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> I have evaluated this approach using the latest version of oVirt Node.
>
> In principle I would like to follow the guidelines of oVirt development
> team, and adopt its best practices, trying to limit excessive
> customizations.
>
> So I installed oVirt Node on 3 hosts and I manually configured the two
> additional interfaces for the point-to-point interconnections on which then
> I configured Gluster.
> This was done very easily, and it works!
>

Sounds like an interesting item for ovirt.org blog!
Y.


>
> I know that SDN is supported by oVirt, even if by default it is bridging
> to the outside.
> I have no experience with the SDN, but I realized that the VxLAN or maybe
> Geneve was the way to go, and now I also have your confirmation.
> Creating Geneve L3 point-to-point tunnels between the nodes, on which then
> configure an L2 overlay network shared by oVirt pool hosts and on which
> then move all internal oVirt communications.
>
> In first analysis this intervention seems structural, not trivial, I think
> it would be better to evaluate it carefully, and if interesting, write a
> best practice or better integrate the functionality in the solution.
> At the end the system must be stable and above all upgradable with
> traditional procedures.
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> Inviato: giovedì 28 giugno 2018 21:34
> A: Stefano Zappa
> Cc: Yaniv Kaul; devel; [email protected]
> Oggetto: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: [ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt HCI point-to-point
> interconnection
>
> Hi,
>
> Network virtualization is already here and widely used. I am still not
> sure what is the gain of this approach. You can do the same with VxLANs or
> Geneve. And how do you scale this? Is it only for 3 node clusters?
>
> Alex
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> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 11:47 Stefano Zappa <[email protected]<mailto:
> [email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Yaniv,
> no, the final purpose is not to save a couple of ports.
>
> The benefit is the trend to convergence and consolidation of the
> networking, as already done for the storage.
> The external interconnection is a critical element of the HCI solution, a
> configuration without switches would give more soundness and more
> independence.
>
> If we think about HCI as the transition of IT infrastructure from
> hardware-defined to software-defined, the first step was virtualization of
> the servers, the second step was storage virtualization, the third step
> will be virtualization of networking.
>
> Of course this also has an economic benefit, reduce the total cost of
> ownership and traditional data-center inefficiencies.
>
> We suppose a very traditional and simple external uplink, we can use the
> interfaces integrated into the motherboard.
> This will not be critical for the integrity of the our HCI solution, this
> will not require broad bandwidth and low latency, this will be used
> exclusively to interconnect the solution with the outside world, then with
> a traditional ethernet switch.
>
> We suppose to give more attention to the point-to-point interconnection of
> the three nodes, using 100 or 200 GbE cards for direct interconnection
> without switches.
> The hypothetical purchase of these 3 cards will not be cheaper, sure, but
> it will be twenty times less than introducing expensive switches that will
> certainly have more ports than necessary.
>
> Thanks for your attention,
> Stefano.
>
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> Inviato: mercoledì 27 giugno 2018 16:20
> A: Stefano Zappa
> Cc: Sahina Bose; Sandro Bonazzola; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>;
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> Oggetto: Re: [ovirt-devel] Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt HCI point-to-point
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> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Stefano Zappa <[email protected]<
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> The final purpose is strictly targeted to your HCI solution with 3-node
> gluster replication.
>
> Can you explain to me what the benefit is? You need a switch anyway (for
> uplink), so the 'cost saving' is that you can use a 4 port (?) switch and
> do not need 6 ports?
> Y.
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> Oggetto: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt HCI point-to-point interconnection
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> The point to point interconnect is something we have not explored - I
> think this limits the solution from scaling out to more nodes.
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>
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> Good morning,
> I would like to kindly ask you a question about the feasibility of
> defining a point-to-point interconnection between three ovirt nodes.
>
> Initially with the idea of optimizing the direct communications between
> the nodes and especially the gluster communications, and so it would seem
> quite easy, then evaluating a more complex configuration, assuming to
> create an overlay L2 network on the three L3 point-to-point, using
> techniques like geneve, of which at the moment I have no mastery.
>
> If the direct routing of three nodes to interconnect the public network
> with the private overlay network was not easily doable, we could leave the
> private overlay network isolated from the outside world and connect the VM
> hosted engine directly to the two networks with two adapters.
>
> This layout with direct interconnection of the nodes without switches and
> a shared L2 overlay network between the nodes may in future be contemplated
> in future releases of your HCI solution?
>
> Thank you for your attention, have a nice day!
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