On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 6:03 PM, JPDSYS2 Machine <[email protected]>wrote:
> I've been running five CentOS 5 x86_64 machines and I am now consolidating > down to one large machine. The machine will be on a AMD Opteron platform > with 64 GB RAM and I have on hand 4 - 1 TB SATA hard drives and 2 - 1.5 TB > SATA hard drives. > > Since I am going from 5 to 1 I will be using KVM virtualization. I am the > most comfortable on CentOS 5.9 x86_64. My questions are: > Do I need openvswitch in this environment? > I don't think you will really need Open vSwitch if your only goal is to do server virtualization. If you are interested in the following features though, Open vSwitch will be a good choice. http://openvswitch.org/features/ > If I do, how do I configure it - is there a tutorial available? > Since you would be using KVM as your hypervisor, you can look up libvirt integration with OVS. It is quite straight-forward. > Since I am not a Network Admin, what is the learning curve? > I think one has to atleast understand tap devices, o/p of tcpdump, protocols like ARP, ICMP etc to do any meaningful debugging. There is documentation about openvswitch here: http://openvswitch.org/support/ Thanks, Guru > TIA > Gene > > ______________________________**_________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss<http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> >
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