2015-08-04 15:29 GMT+03:00 Bhattiprolu RaviKumar <[email protected]>: > Nick, > Thanks for the reply. I am more looking from virtualization perspective. > If I have attached VFs to VMs and switching happens in NIC, OVS will not > know what is happening in NIC. Also, the switching inside NIX is based on > ethernet MAC address and VLAN. We will not be able to take the full > advantage of other OVS features like VxLAN encapsulation etc at this moment > with VFs. Also, number of VFs will be limited and ifd we need to switch > between VF and a software interface, it will not be possible. This is what I > mean by support in OVS. Is there any specification whichcal tell HW > requirements so that OVS can work in this situation seamlessly.
You can use mellanox or something like this cards that have internally openflow support in nic. -- Vasiliy Tolstov, e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
