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Fuel Plugin v2.0.0 for VMware NSXv SDN integration

NSXv plugin for Fuel provides an ability to deploy OpenStack cluster that is utilizing vCenter compute clusters and NSXv network virtualization platform.

Problem description

Upcoming Neutron server manifests refactoring1 breaks backward compatibility for Fuel NSXv plugin v1.0.0. Deployment manifests of the plugin must be adjusted according to this change.

Proposed change

Plugin changes can be summarized in the following list:

  • Refactor puppet deployment manifests.
  • Fuel 8.0 will be extended with component registry feature2. This will allow plugin implement its own option in cluster creation wizard, which will significantly simplify interaction with Nailgun database. Plugin will not need to update Nailgun database to enable Neutron networking option for vCenter. Plugin installation will be much faster, since we no longer need to wait for docker container restart.
  • Fuel 8.0 will shipped with OpenStack Liberty. Neutron NSX plugin must be updated to new version.
  • During OpenStack Liberty development cycle new configuration options were added to Neutron NSX plugin (exclusive_router_appliance_size, edge_appliance_user, edge_appliance_password, dhcp_lease_time, locking_coordinator_url). Plugin should provide input fields for this options on its page with settings.
  • Plugin must create predefined networks (net04, net04_ext) in order to allow end user start OSTF checks against deployed cloud.
  • Nova project merged changes required for NSX support in Liberty release. This means that plugin package do not need to carry customized python-nova package. It will be dropped.

Plugin assumes that end user already has vCenter with NSXv up and running.

In OpenStack environment with NSXv plugin it will be not possible to use KVM/QEMU compute nodes, because NSXv networking platform is not supported by KVM hypervisor.

Plugin will be compatible with Fuel 8.0.

Alternatives

None.

Data model impact

New values will be added into astute.yaml:

nsxv:
...
  nsxv_exclusive_router_appliance_size:
    value: large
    description: "Edge form factor for exclusive router"
    regex: ^(compact|large|quadlarge|xlarge)$
  nsxv_edge_appliance_user:
    value: root
    description: "User for Edge node login"
  nsxv_edge_appliance_password:
    value: p@sSw0rD+
    description: "Password for Edge node login"
  nsxv_dhcp_lease_time:
    value: 86400
    description: "DHCP lease time"
  nsxv_locking_coordinator_url:
    value: http://192.168.0.30:2181
    description: "URL for distributed locking coordinator"

REST API impact

None.

Upgrade impact

None.

Security impact

None.

Notifications impact

None.

Other end user impact

None.

Performance Impact

None.

Other deployer impact

None.

Developer impact

None.

Implementation

Assignee(s)

Primary assignee:

Other contributors:

Project manager:

Quality assurance:

Work Items

  • Remove .deb package python-nova
  • Rewrite puppet manifests
  • Add option in cluster creation wizard
  • Create predefined network in post-deployment stage
  • Perform regression tests
  • Update documentation

Dependencies

Testing

  • Sanity checks including plugin build
  • Syntax check
  • Functional testing
  • Non-functional testing
  • Destructive testing

Documentation Impact

Documentation need to be updated to implemented changes.

References

  1. Granular Neutron deployment tasks https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/make-neutron-deployment-task-more-granular↩︎

  2. Component registry for Fuel https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/component-registry↩︎