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| author |   ChristopherPrice <christopher.price@ericsson.com> | 2016-02-22 19:53:54 +0100 |
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| committer |   Mark D. Gray <mark.d.gray@intel.com> | 2016-02-23 11:17:23 +0000 |
| commit | 67a5d606ecf520cc2fc11d35540b8c0fce4d56db (patch) | |
| tree | 2e282490a4925fc9e06588611e7cb71610992edd /docs/userguide/featureusage.rst | |
| parent | 7b34b916dfa5f0eaebc3a58acb8c565201455530 (diff) | |
Adjusting the filenames to incorporate the material into the composite docs.
ACTION: need to include Feature Configuration sections for ovs4nfv
Simona states the ovs4nfv docs may be ready and we should check from the opnfvdocs repo
Also adjusted the heading levels for readability.
Change-Id: Icd7616b7d9453490147fd361b013c3c8a3b5e79d
Signed-off-by: ChristopherPrice <christopher.price@ericsson.com>
(cherry picked from commit e2a47bd00369ee30a4ffed6c446f0c76faf662e4)
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diff --git a/docs/userguide/featureusage.rst b/docs/userguide/featureusage.rst new file mode 100755 index 0000000..a26e2e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/userguide/featureusage.rst @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 +.. Copyright (c) 2016 Open Platform for NFV Project, Inc. and its contributors + +Open vSwitch +============ + +Open vSwtich (OVS) is a software switch commonly used in OpenStack deployments +to replace Linux bridges as it offers advantages in terms of mobility, hardware +integration and use by network controllers. + +OPNFV Installers +================ + +Currently not all installers are supported. + +Fuel Installer +-------------- + +OVSNFV project supplies a Fuel Plugin to upgrades Open vSwitch on an OPNFV +installation to use user-space datapath. + +As part of the upgrade the following changes are also made: + +* change libvirt on compute node to 1.2.12 +* change qemu on compute node to 2.2.1 +* installs DPDK 2.0.0 +* installs OVS 2.1 (specifically git tag 1e77bbe) +* removes existing OVS neutron plugin +* installs new OVS plugin as part of networking_ovs_dpdk OpenStack plugin + version stable/kilo +* work around _set_device_mtu issue + +Limitations +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This release should be considered experimental. In particular: + +* performance will be addressed specifically in subsequent releases. +* OVS and other components are updated only on compute nodes. + +Bugs +~~~~ + +* There may be issues assigning floating and public ip address to VMs. + |