Dan, I totally agree that the driver should be thin and focus on VM provision/termination. While ii may be looked unimportant, I just prefer that the quantum manager will determine both VIF and bridge name instead of using a convention that these names are extracted from the UUID.
Best Regards, RamiC On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Dan Wendlandt <d...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Rami Cohen <ramic.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> While Quantum manager may communicate with compute nodes using a quantum >> agent, in some cases when Quantum is integrated with Nova, the agent may >> not be needed (while it can be used for enhanced services). In this cases, >> when the Quantum VIF driver (which is part of Nova compute) is used for VM >> provisioning/terminating/restarting utilizing the existing Nova >> infrastructure, it may be required to pass parameters from the quantum >> manager to the Quantum driver. Nevertheless, in current Nova architecture >> the Nova network does not pass the values returned from the quantum Manager >> to the compute nodes. >> I really think that passing the Quantum manager values to the Quantum VIF >> driver is really important for Quantum agent less implementation and it is >> quite an easy change to make. >> > > Hi Rami, > > I see no problem with the vif-driver getting information returned from > Quantum per-se. In fact, tr3buchet is reworking the nova/quantum > integration code and as a result some values from Quantum (e.g., allocated > MAC + IP address) will most definitely be passed to the vif-driver. > > However, I do want to make sure that the vif-plugging driver stays "thin" > and focused primarily on connecting the vNIC to the switch. > > Dan > > > >> >> RamiC >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dan Wendlandt > Nicira, Inc: www.nicira.com > twitter: danwendlandt > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > -- RamiC™
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