Martin,

On 09/02/2015 06:42 AM, Martin Bjorklund wrote:
> Andy Bierman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Lou Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Can one of you give an example of how this word work for a device (which
>>> may be physical or virtual) that allocates done resources, say interfaces
>>> to one logical entity (router, system, etc) and other resources to a second
>>> entity? And of course I want to manage all with yang and the first and
>>> second (sub) entity must be completely independent and ignorant of each
>>> other.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> The logical system knows only about itself:
>>
>>     /interfaces
>>     /system
> 
> This is important.
> 
>> The / node is represented by <config> or <data> or <filter> in the protocol.
>>
>>    <get-config>
>>        <source><running/></source>
>>        <filter>
>>          <interfaces />
>>          <system />
>>       </filter>
>>    </getconfig>
>>
>> Each logical system can have its own "eth0" interface or whatever.
>> They are mapped to real interfaces in the physical system.
>>
>> All operations on the logical system are validated against its own
>> virtual datastore.  YANG validation does not work on individual array
>> slices -- it only applies to an entire datastore.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> On the physical server there needs to be a data model to manage the
>> logical servers (as Martin suggested).
>>
>>  <config>             <--- root on PHY server
>>    <interfaces  />   <--------------- contains the real interfaces,
>> including eth23
>>    <virtual-servers>
>>       <virtual-server>
>>          <name>vs1</name>
>>          <itf-map>
>>              <real-itf>eth23</real-itf>
>>              <vir-itf>eth0</vir-itf>
>>          <itf-map>
>>          <more-virtual-server-params ... />
>>          <root>                   <----------- YANG mount point (virtual
>> server root)
>>             <interfaces>
>>                <interface>
>>                   <name>eth0</name>
>>                     ...
>>                </interface>
>>             </interfaces>
>>             <system ... />
>>          </root>
>>        </virtual-server>
>>     </virtual-servers>
>>   </config>
> 
> I like this, but I would actually not use mount here.  I don't think
> it is necessary.  This would be a model for devices that support
> multiple 'virtual-servers' / 'logical-network-elements'.  So in this
> model you configure these logical-network-elements and allocate
> resources like interfaces etc to them.  For true virtual servers,
> you'd also configure the NETCONF server and authentication params,
> meaning that each such virtual server has its own config, which is
> completely separate from the others.  In this architecture, it would
> not be correct to mount all the models in the virtual server list.
> 

We discussed this in the DT and (I think) agreed there is room / need
for both approaches based on device owner/client management model (i.e.,
is the device owner responsible for client config, device owner without
client view.)  Do you have a reference for a model that can be used to
support this, or just thinking one is needed?

Thanks,
Lou
> 
> /martin
> 

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