Presentation of the proposed "Basic" plugin for the Openstack Quantum service. From the Openstack Essex Design summit.

1. Quantum "Reference Implementation" plugin Wednesday, October 5 2.00 PM http://etherpad.openstack.org/QuantumBasePlugin Openstack “Essex” design summitBoston – October 3-5 2001 Netstack track

2. Agenda Motivations and goal “reference”, “default” or “whatever” plugin Quantum-vlan-plugin blueprint Follow-up actions

3. Motivations Plugins currently available do not embrace the spectrum of hypervisors supported by Openstack Openvswitch: Xen/XenServer/KVM with Open vSwitch Cisco UCS: KVM with 802.1qbh It is important to have a Quantum plugin which: Can run on each hypervisor platform supported by Openstack Can run on ‘vanilla’ hypervisor with little to no changes to sw/hw configuration

4. Goal Build a Quantum plugin satisfying the following requirements: Works on Xen/XenServer/KVM/ESX and possibly Hyper-V Does not require any additional software or hardware component Can be used on mixed hypervisor deployments (e.g.: XenServer and ESX)

5. Terminology Reference The plugin will become the “reference implementation” of the API Basic The plugin adopts very basic technologies (e.g.: VLANs) Default The plugin is the default choice in quantum.conf Other proposals?

6. Implementation (1/2) Quantum-vlan-plugin blueprinthttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/quantum/+spec/quantum-vlan-plugin Porting of nova-network L2 components to Quantum libvirt for KVM XenAPI for XenServer VMWareAPI for ESX ??? For HyperV VLANs are possibly the only suitable way for implementing this plugin at the moment

7. Implementation (2/2)

8. Open discussion Alternative implementation strategies Hypervisor Support In particular Hyper-V (compute service work required on networking side)