Mellanox Embedded Switch (NIC) plugin
The proposal is to implement Quantum L2 plugin that support Mellanox embedded Switch functionality as part of the Ethernet/InfiniBand NIC, allowing hardware vNICs (based on SR-IOV VFs) per each VM vNIC with its unique connectivity, security, and QoS attributes. NIC based switching provides better performance, functionality, and security/isolation for virtual cloud environments.
This plugin will be implemented according to Plugin-Agent pattern.
-- Plugin: Will processes Quantum API calls, manage network segmentation id allocation and support L2 and L3 Agents to provide Network connectivity.
-- L2 Agent: Will run on each compute node, get a mapping between a VIF and Embedded Switch port and apply VIF connectivity.
A nova VIF Driver will be provided for Embedded Switch port creation and vNIC binding (Para-virtualized or SR-IOV with optional RDMA guest access).
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Irena Berezovsky
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Irena Berezovsky
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for havana
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
2013.2
- Started by
- Irena Berezovsky
- Completed by
- Mark McClain
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