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This patch updates documentation in order to describe vxlan deployment as the default networking tunnel to be used with 6wind virtual accelerator plugin. Moreover this patch reworks the network configuration extra step description to be mandatory only for vlan scenarios. Signed-off-by: Francesco Santoro <francesco.santoro@6wind.com> Acked-by: Change-Id: Ia959e1aaa9984aaa56cfa76d3850060801a7f1b4 |
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README.md
Fuel Plugin for Virtual Accelerator description
6WIND Virtual Accelerator is available for 1, 2 and 4 socket Intel x86-based
servers and supports major Linux distributions.
- See more at: http://www.6wind.com/products/6wind-virtual-accelerator/
User Guide
As first step clone this repository.
When this step is done, the plugin can be correctly built with the following
command:
fpb --build fuel-plugin-6wind-virtual-accelerator
Copy the generated plugin rpm package to the Fuel master and install it as
usual:
fuel plugins --install {package}.rpm
When this step is finished proceed with fuel environment creation as
detailed here:
1. Create a new environment with the Fuel Web UI wizard.
2. Click on the Settings tab of the Fuel Web UI.
3. Scroll down the page, select the plugin checkbox and edit options
(if desired).
In particular it is mandatory to provide the 6WIND base64 credentials
package for software download.
Contact 6WIND support team for more information.
4. Associate both 6WIND Virtual Accelerator and Compute roles with nodes
you want to accelerate
5. Start deployment
At the end of this whole process the Virtual Accelerator should be correctly
installed and running on the selected node.
Support
This software is provided as-is without support from 6WIND. In order to get a proper support, you should contact 6WIND.
Testing
None.
Known issues
The plugin does not create nova flavors with huge page support. End users are responsible to create those flavors.
Release Notes
1.0.0
- Initial release of the plugin. This is a beta version.
Bugs Reporting
Bugs should be filled on the [Launchpad fuel-plugins project]
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel-plugins) with the tag virtual-accelerator
.