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@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@ Using IPv6 Feature of Danube Release
====================================
This section provides the users with gap analysis regarding IPv6 feature requirements with
-OpenStack Newton Official Release and Open Daylight Boron/Carbon Official Release. The gap analysis
+OpenStack Newton Official Release and Open Daylight Boron Official Release. The gap analysis
serves as feature specific user guides and references when as a user you may leverage the
IPv6 feature in the platform and need to perform some IPv6 related operations.
+For more information, please find Neutron's IPv6 document for Newton Release [1]_.
+
***************************************
IPv6 Gap Analysis with OpenStack Newton
***************************************
@@ -84,10 +86,12 @@ requirements of VIM-agnostic IPv6 functionality, including infrastructure layer
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|VM access to the meta-data server to obtain user data, SSH |**No** |This is currently not supported. Config-drive or dual-stack IPv4 / |
|keys, etc. using cloud-init with IPv6 only interfaces. | |IPv6 can be used as a workaround (so that the IPv4 network is used |
- | | |to obtain connectivity with the metadata service) |
+ | | |to obtain connectivity with the metadata service). The following |
+ | | |blog [2]_ provides a neat summary on how to use config-drive for |
+ | | |metadata with IPv6 network. |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- |Full support for IPv6 matching (i.e., IPv6, ICMPv6, TCP, |Yes | |
- |UDP) in security groups. Ability to control and manage all | | |
+ |Full support for IPv6 matching (i.e., IPv6, ICMPv6, TCP, |Yes |Both IPTables firewall driver and OVS firewall driver support IPv6 |
+ |UDP) in security groups. Ability to control and manage all | |Security Group API. |
|IPv6 security group capabilities via Neutron/Nova API (REST| | |
|and CLI) as well as via Horizon. | | |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
@@ -116,9 +120,25 @@ requirements of VIM-agnostic IPv6 functionality, including infrastructure layer
|Ability for a VM to support a mix of multiple IPv4 and IPv6|Yes | |
|networks, including multiples of the same type. | | |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |IPv6 Support in "Allowed Address Pairs" Extension |Yes | |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Support for IPv6 Prefix Delegation. |Yes |Partial support in Newton |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
- |Distributed Virtual Routing (DVR) support for IPv6 |**No** |Blueprint proposed upstream, pending discussion. |
+ |Distributed Virtual Routing (DVR) support for IPv6 |**No** |In Newton DVR implementation, IPv6 works. But all the IPv6 ingress/ |
+ | | |egress traffic is routed via the centralized controller node, i.e. |
+ | | |similar to SNAT traffic. |
+ | | |A fully distributed IPv6 router is not yet supported in Neutron. |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |VPNaaS |Yes |VPNaaS supports IPv6. But this feature is not extensively tested. |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |FWaaS |Yes | |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |BGP Dynamic Routing Support for IPv6 Prefixes |Yes |BGP Dynamic Routing supports peering via IPv6 and advertising IPv6 |
+ | | |prefixes. |
+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |VxLAN Tunnels with IPv6 endpoints. |Yes |Neutron ML2/OVS supports configuring local_ip with IPv6 address so |
+ | | |that VxLAN tunnels are established with IPv6 addresses. This |
+ | | |feature requires OVS 2.6 or higher version. |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|IPv6 First-Hop Security, IPv6 ND spoofing |Yes | |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
@@ -126,18 +146,18 @@ requirements of VIM-agnostic IPv6 functionality, including infrastructure layer
|(keepalived+VRRP). | | |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
-*************************************************
-IPv6 Gap Analysis with Open Daylight Boron/Carbon
-*************************************************
+******************************************
+IPv6 Gap Analysis with Open Daylight Boron
+******************************************
This section provides users with IPv6 gap analysis regarding feature requirement with
-Open Daylight Boron/Carbon Official Release. The following table lists the use cases / feature
+Open Daylight Boron Official Release. The following table lists the use cases / feature
requirements of VIM-agnostic IPv6 functionality, including infrastructure layer and VNF
-(VM) layer, and its gap analysis with Open Daylight Boron/Carbon Official Release.
+(VM) layer, and its gap analysis with Open Daylight Boron Official Release.
-**Open Daylight Boron/Carbon Status**
+**Open Daylight Boron Status**
-There are 2 options in Open Daylight Boron/Carbon to provide Virtualized Networks:
+There are 2 options in Open Daylight Boron to provide Virtualized Networks:
1 ``Old Netvirt``: netvirt implementation used in Open Daylight Beryllium Release
identified by feature ``odl-ovsdb-openstack``
@@ -150,7 +170,7 @@ There are 2 options in Open Daylight Boron/Carbon to provide Virtualized Network
:class: longtable
+--------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
- |Use Case / Requirement | Supported in ODL Boron/Carbon |Notes |
+ |Use Case / Requirement | Supported in ODL Boron |Notes |
| +---------------------+-----------------------+ |
| | Old Netvirt | New Netvirt | |
| |(odl-ovsdb-openstack)|(odl-netvirt-openstack)| |
@@ -163,11 +183,14 @@ There are 2 options in Open Daylight Boron/Carbon to provide Virtualized Network
| | | |IPv4/v6 addresses to ODL Neutron northbound API. When port |
| | | |information is queried it displays IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. |
+--------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
- |IPv6 Router support in ODL |**No** |**Partial** |IPv6 Router support is work in progress in ODL. |
- | | | | |
- |1. Communication between VMs on same compute node | | |Currently communication between VMs on the same network is |
- |2. Communication between VMs on different compute | | |supported, and the support for the other modes is work in |
- | nodes (east-west) | | |progress. |
+ |IPv6 Router support in ODL: |**No** |Yes | |
+ |1. Communication between VMs on same compute node | | | |
+ +--------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |IPv6 Router support in ODL: |**No** |Yes | |
+ |2. Communication between VMs on different compute | | | |
+ | nodes (east-west) | | | |
+ +--------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |IPv6 Router support in ODL: |**No** |**Work in Progress** |Work in progress. |
|3. External routing (north-south) | | | |
+--------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|IPAM: Support for IPv6 Address assignment modes. |**No** |Yes |ODL IPv6 Router supports all the IPv6 Address assignment modes|
@@ -179,8 +202,8 @@ There are 2 options in Open Daylight Boron/Carbon to provide Virtualized Network
|When using ODL for L2 forwarding/tunneling, it is |Yes |Yes | |
|compatible with IPv6. | | | |
+--------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
- |Full support for IPv6 matching (i.e. IPv6, ICMPv6,|**Partial** |**Partial** |Security Groups for IPv6 is a work in progress, and some |
- |TCP, UDP) in security groups. Ability to control | | |partial support is available. |
+ |Full support for IPv6 matching (i.e. IPv6, ICMPv6,|**Partial** |Yes |Security Groups for IPv6 is supported in the new NetVirt. |
+ |TCP, UDP) in security groups. Ability to control | | | |
|and manage all IPv6 security group capabilities | | | |
|via Neutron/Nova API (REST and CLI) as well as via| | | |
|Horizon | | | |
@@ -192,3 +215,13 @@ There are 2 options in Open Daylight Boron/Carbon to provide Virtualized Network
|ODL on an IPv6 only Infrastructure. |**No** |**Work in Progress** |Deploying OpenStack with ODL on an IPv6 only infrastructure |
| | | |where the API endpoints are all IPv6 addresses. |
+--------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+ |VxLAN Tunnels with IPv6 Endpoints |**No** |**Work in Progress** |Work in progress. The necessary patches are under review to |
+ | | | |support this use case for OVS 2.6 or higher version. |
+ +--------------------------------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+References
+
+.. [1] Neutron IPv6 Documentation for Newton Release: http://docs.openstack.org/newton/networking-guide/config-ipv6.html
+
+.. [2] How to Use Config-Drive for Metadata with IPv6 Network: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/deploying-ipv6-only-tenants-with-openstack/
+