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| author |   Billy O'Mahony <billy.o.mahony@intel.com> | 2016-01-18 14:13:54 +0000 |
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| committer |   Mark D. Gray <mark.d.gray@intel.com> | 2016-01-18 15:02:36 +0000 |
| commit | 8e8c96144edf1bbdb373ffecbf7f5dd5f8d12bd7 (patch) | |
| tree | 325a396025b88cae5b7c756d03f167517c06a498 /docs/userguides/quickstart.rst | |
| parent | 23603146c2502c54ac451f85cffc0d5cc49ecede (diff) | |
docs: Add initial documentation
Change-Id: Ia6d2724b11d034f46bc3a3698d0a0bfc08b83884
Signed-off-by: Billy O'Mahony <billy.o.mahony@intel.com>
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diff --git a/docs/userguides/quickstart.rst b/docs/userguides/quickstart.rst new file mode 100755 index 0000000..b226110 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/userguides/quickstart.rst @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +=========================== +Getting Started with OVSNFV +=========================== + +Fuel Plugin Overview +-------------------- + +OVSNFV Fuel plugin 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 + +Requirements +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Currently not all installers are supported. + +Limitations +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Limitataions +------------ + +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. +* There may be issues assigning floating and public ip address to VMs. |