.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 .. Copyright (c) 2016 Open Platform for NFV Project, Inc. and its contributors Open vSwitch ============ Open vSwtich (OVS) is a software switch commonly used in OpenStack deployments to replace Linux bridges as it offers advantages in terms of mobility, hardware integration and use by network controllers. Supported OPNFV Installers -------------------------- Currently not all installers are supported. Fuel Installer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OVSNFV project supplies a Fuel Plugin to upgrades Open vSwitch on an OPNFV installation to use user-space datapath. As part of the upgrade the following changes are also made: * change libvirt on compute node to 1.2.12 * change qemu on compute node to 2.2.1 * installs DPDK 2.0.0 * installs OVS 2.1 (specifically git tag 1e77bbe) * removes existing OVS neutron plugin * installs new OVS plugin as part of networking_ovs_dpdk OpenStack plugin version stable/kilo * work around _set_device_mtu issue Limitations ~~~~~~~~~~~ This release should be considered experimental. In particular: * performance will be addressed specifically in subsequent releases. * OVS and other components are updated only on compute nodes. Bugs ~~~~ * There may be issues assigning floating and public ip address to VMs. .. Revision: ea19322905364c400806d8f4a611c7ef83cfc24d Build date: 2016-05-24