Brocade Openstack VDX Plugin (Non AMPP)

This describes the setup of Openstack Plugins for Brocade VDX devices for L2 Networking (Non AMPP)
https://github.com/openstack/networking-brocade/tree/master/networking_brocade/vdx

Fig 1. Setup of VDX Fabric with Compute Nodes

The figure(fig 1) shows a typical Physical deployment of Servers(Compute Nodes) connected to VDX L2 Fabric. -

eth1 on the controller Node is connected to VDX interface (e.g Te 135/0/10)
eth1 on the compute Node is connected to VDX interface (e.g Te 136/0/10)
NIC (eth1) on the servers (controller,compute ) are part of OVS bridge br1.

Note: To create bridge br1 on compute Nodes and add port eth1 to it.
sudo ovs-vsctl add-br br1
sudo ovs-vsctl add-port br1 eth1

In this setup, Virtual Machines would be created on each of the host servers(controller,compute) on a network by the name Green (10.0.0.0/24)

Setup of Openstack Plugin

Pre-requisites

Brocade Plugins require a specific version of ncclient (Net conf library). It can be obtained from the following github location.

git clone https://github.com/brocade/ncclient
cd ncclient
sudo python setup.py install

Install Plugin

git clone https://github.com/openstack/networking-brocade.git --branch=<stable/branch_name>
cd networking-brocade
sudo python setup.py install

Note: branch is an optional if the latest files(master branch) from the repository is required.

Upgrade the Database

Upgrade the database so that Brocade specific table entries are created in neutron database

 neutron-db-manage  --config-file /etc/neutron/neutron.conf  
  --config-file /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini upgrade head

Openstack Controller Configurations (L2 Non AMPP Setup)

Following configuration lines needs to be available in ‘/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini’ to start Brocade VDX Mechanism driver (brocade_vdx_vlan).

[ml2]
tenant_network_types = vlan
type_drivers = vlan
mechanism_drivers = openvswitch,brocade_vdx_vlan
[ml2_type_vlan]
network_vlan_ranges = physnet1:2:500
[ovs]
bridge_mappings = physnet1:br1

Here,

mechanism driver needs to be set to ‘brocade_vdx_vlan’ along with openvswitch.
‘br1’ is the openvswitch bridge.
‘2:500’ is the vlan range used

Following configuration lines for the VDX Fabric needs to be added to either ‘/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf_brocade.ini’ or ‘/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini’.
If added to ‘/etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf_brocade.ini’ then this file should be given as config parameter during neutron-server startup.

[ml2_brocade]
username = admin 
password = password 
address  = 10.37.18.139
ostype   = NOS 
physical_networks = physnet1 
osversion=5.0.0
initialize_vcs = True
nretries = 5
ndelay = 10
nbackoff = 2

[topology]
#connections=<host-name> : <physical network name>: <PORT-SPEED> <NOS PORT>
connections = controller:physnet1:Te:135/0/10, compute:physnet1:Te:136/0/10

Here,
[ml2_brocade] - entries

10.37.18.139 is the VCS Virtual IP (IP for the L2 Fabric).
osversion - NOS version on the L2 Fabric.
nretries - number of netconf to the switch will be retried in case of failure
ndelay - time delay in seconds between successive netconf commands in case of failure
[topology] - entries
Here physical connectivity between NIC, PhysNet (Host side) and Switch Interfaces are provided

Openstack Compute Configurations (L2 Non AMPP Setup)

Following configuration lines needs to be available in one of the configuration files used by openvswitch agent.
e.g /etc/neutron/plugins/openvswitch/ovs_neutron_plugin.ini

[ovs]
bridge_mappings = physnet1:br1
network_vlan_ranges = 2:500
tenant_network_type = vlan

Here,

‘br1’ is the openvswith bridge.
‘2:500’ is the vlan range used

Openstack CLI Comands

Create Networks

Create a GREEN Network (10.0.0.0/24) using neutron CLI’s. Note down the id of the network created which will be used during subsequent nova boot commands.

user@controller:~$ neutron net-create GREEN_NETWORK
user@controller:~$ neutron subnet-create GREEN_NETWORK 10.0.0.0/24 --name GREEN_SUBNET --gateway=10.0.0.1
user@controller:~$ neutron net-show GREEN_NETWORK
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| admin_state_up            | True                                 |
| availability_zone_hints   |                                      |
| availability_zones        | nova                                 |
| created_at                | 2016-04-12T09:38:45                  |
| description               |                                      |
| id                        | d5c94db7-9040-481c-b33c-252618fb71f8 |
| ipv4_address_scope        |                                      |
| ipv6_address_scope        |                                      |
| mtu                       | 1500                                 |
| name                      | GREEN_NETWORK                        |
| port_security_enabled     | True                                 |
| provider:network_type     | vlan                                 |
| provider:physical_network | physnet1                             |
| provider:segmentation_id  | 12                                   |
| router:external           | False                                |
| shared                    | False                                |
| status                    | ACTIVE                               |
| subnets                   | 1217d77d-2638-4c5c-9777-f5cd4f4e5045 |
| tags                      |                                      |
| tenant_id                 | ed2196b380214e6ebcecc7d70e01eba4     |
| updated_at                | 2016-04-12T09:38:45                  |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+

Check the availability Zones, We will launch one VM each on one of the servers.

user@controller:~$ nova availability-zone-list
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------+
| Name                  | Status                                 |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------+
| internal              | available                              |
| |- controller         |                                        |
| | |- nova-conductor   | enabled :-) 2016-04-11T05:10:06.000000 |
| | |- nova-scheduler   | enabled :-) 2016-04-11T05:10:07.000000 |
| | |- nova-consoleauth | enabled :-) 2016-04-11T05:10:07.000000 |
| nova                  | available                              |
| |- compute            |                                        |
| | |- nova-compute     | enabled :-) 2016-04-11T05:10:10.000000 |
| |- controller         |                                        |
| | |- nova-compute     | enabled :-) 2016-04-11T05:10:05.000000 |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------+

Launching Virtual Machines

Boot VM1 on Server by the name “controller”

user@controller:~$nova boot --nic net-id=$(neutron net-list | awk '/GREEN_NETWORK/ {print $2}') 
 --image cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-uec --flavor m1.tiny --availability-zone nova:controller VM1

Boot VM2 on Server by the name “compute”

user@controller:~$nova boot --nic net-id=$(neutron net-list | awk '/GREEN_NETWORK/ {print $2}')
 --image cirros-0.3.4-x86_64-uec --flavor m1.tiny --availability-zone nova:compute VM2

VDX

Following L2 Networking entries would be created on VDX Switches.

sw0# show running-config interface TenGigabitEthernet 135/0/10
interface TenGigabitEthernet 135/0/10
 switchport
 switchport mode trunk
 switchport trunk allowed vlan add 12
 switchport trunk tag native-vlan
 spanning-tree shutdown
 fabric isl enable
 fabric trunk enable
 no shutdown
!
sw0# show running-config interface TenGigabitEthernet 136/0/10
interface TenGigabitEthernet 136/0/10
 switchport
 switchport mode trunk
 switchport trunk allowed vlan add 12
 switchport trunk tag native-vlan
 spanning-tree shutdown
 fabric isl enable
 fabric trunk enable
 no shutdown
!

Ping between Virtual Machines across Hosts

We should now be able to ping between Virtual Machines on the two host servers.

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L2-NON AMPP Brocade VDX Plugin