On 12/15/2016 02:29 AM, Shravan S K wrote:
On 14 December 2016 at 00:47, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    OVN is an SDN controller.

    > Most SDN controllers are platforms.  OVN is an application.


Could you clarify this, please?

And, is microsegmentation(for example VMWare NSX, Cisco ACI) possible
using OVN?


Fine-grained ACLs/firewall rules are possible via OVS' integration with the kernel conntrack module (leveraged by OVN). However, OVN lacks any sort of policy engine that would make managing these ACLs/firewall rules possible at any reasonable scale---that policy functionality is pushed off to the CMS (OpenStack or other).

I hope this helps.

--
Scott

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