Linda,

I do not see why nvo3 differs from other technologies when it comes to 
switching and routing.

Obviously a tenant may have different VNs. Communication within an L2 VN is 
based on traditional switching,
Communication across L2 VNs is based on tradtional routing. IRB-like 
capabilities (as I think that this is what you are hinting) can be supported 
but this is implementation specific.

Hence, I'm not sure what a specific "inter-subnet communication" section would 
contain.

Marc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Linda Dunbar
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 11:05 PM
> To: Lucy yong; Benson Schliesser; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [nvo3] WG Last Call for draft-ietf-nvo3-framework-02
> 
> I second Lucy's comments. 
> 
> Inter Virtual Network communication (or inter subnet 
> communication) is a big part of data centers. Hosts in data 
> center do communicate with external peers. Many tenants to DC 
> need more than one Virtual Network Instances. And hosts in 
> those virtual network instances do communicate with each 
> other and some communicate with peers via public internet. 
> 
> 
> IMHO, Inter-subnet communication set NV03 apart from other 
> overlay done by IETF, such as L2VPN, TRILL, LISP, etc. 
> Therefore, the framework should have a section on "inter 
> Subnet Communication". 
> 
> There are some inter virtual network discussion in 
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-yong-nvo3-frwk-dpreq-addition/. 
> The content from this draft should be included in the general 
> framework.
> 
> 
> Linda 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf 
> > Of Lucy yong
> > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 12:22 PM
> > To: Benson Schliesser; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [nvo3] WG Last Call for draft-ietf-nvo3-framework-02
> > 
> > I read this version and glad to see adding a section for VM 
> mobility.
> > 
> > Some comments:
> > 
> > 1) The introduction states that the rationale for using overlay 
> > networks in DC is for building multi-tenant data center 
> networks. It 
> > also mentions that a tenant network may consist of one or 
> more virtual 
> > networks. However, the architecture and reference model is 
> focusing on 
> > single virtual network overlay architecture only. It is lack of 
> > describing the architecture and model about multiple 
> virtual networks 
> > forming one tenant network, i.e. virtual network overlay 
> > interconnections.
> > 
> > Thus, a question to the WG chair, is this the scope for nvo3 WG? If 
> > yes, that is fine and the framework document should make it 
> very clear 
> > that the framework document describes architecture model of 
> a virtual 
> > network and only applies to a tenant network if it consists of one 
> > virtual network that may be implemented by either L2 overlay or L3 
> > overlay. a tenant network that contain more than one 
> virtual networks 
> > is outside scope of this document. If not, we can either have one 
> > framework draft to architect both, or we have two separate 
> documents, 
> > one to intra virtual network overlay and another for inter virtual 
> > network overlay.
> > 
> > Without clarifying this, I am not clear if the framework 
> document is 
> > working on a virtual network over L3 infrastructure or a tenant 
> > network over L3 infrastructure. Two are not equivalents.
> > 
> > 2) Figure 2 illustrate a logical service connectivity for a single 
> > tenant. First of all, it should not show L3 infrastructure in the 
> > figure at all. Second, I interpret this figure as one 
> tenant network 
> > consisting of four virtual networks, three L2 virtual 
> networks and one
> > L3 virtual network. It should point out that VMs on a L2 virtual 
> > network may reside on the same or different servers. The 
> drawing and 
> > team LAN make easy to thing they are physical LANs. In fact 
> they are 
> > not. VM on LAN11 and VM on LAN12 may reside on the same 
> server. Thus 
> > it is very important to state them out clearly. Finally, 
> based on my 
> > comment 1), it should clarify what this document address 
> regarding to 
> > this figure here.
> > 
> > 3) in Section 3.3, "In DC environments utilizing VM 
> technologies, an 
> > important feature
> >        is that VMs can move from one server to another 
> server in the 
> > same
> >        or different L2 physical domains (within or across DCs) in a
> >        seamless manner."
> > 
> > What does the L2 physical domain mean here? Why need to 
> mention this?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Lucy
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> > Of
> > > Benson Schliesser
> > > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 6:28 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [nvo3] WG Last Call for draft-ietf-nvo3-framework-02
> > >
> > > This email begins a two week working group last call for 
> > > draft-ietf-nvo3-framework-02.
> > >
> > > Please review the draft and post any comments to the NVO3 list.
> > >
> > > This working group last call will end on Friday 08-March-2013.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > -Benson & Matthew
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