Open vSwitch comes embedded with Linux Kernel 3.3 and up, it became the cornerstone of Network Virtualisation. But if you start having connectivity issues, it’s better to have a great bit of knowledge to really understand it. This article is a cheatsheet that will help you achieve this goal. I hope ;) Open vSwitch features To give you a rough idea of all the greatness of Open vSwitch (OVS), here is a brief feature list, as of version 2.3. ...
Redhat announced a month ago OpenStack Platform 5.0 which officially support VMware NSX 6.0 and vSphere 5.5. In our lab today, we’ll deploy this OpenStack distribution and connect it to NSX and vSphere to see how easy it is and if everything works as expected. By the way it’s not, so beware, this article is just a preview of what’s coming. If you want to reproduce the same setup, you’ll have to wait until VMware officially support RedHat 7.0. This article will be updated accordingly when it will be publicly available. ...
In this article we will review all the steps required to deploy NSX 4.0 a Network Virtualisation offering from VMware. We will nest this lab within an OpenStack cloud but you can run the lab anywhere else where you can launch VMs, including vSphere, Virtual Box or VMware Fusion. OpenStack Networking In our environment each kvm VM will be connected to distinct networks using different virtual interfaces. We first have to create four logical networks within our OpenStack cloud. It’s a funny exercice to deploy NSX nested inside NSX ! ...