From 124d429e97cb57c31735ba596900d6cab50d6458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Billy O'Mahony Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 13:23:18 +0000 Subject: docs: Reformat docs to rel/b standard. This patch is only to comply with https://wiki.opnfv.org/documentation any other documention short-comings should be dealt with in a further patch. Change-Id: Ib770c192f9ad60907b923c9d99fa351d7621c7f2 Signed-off-by: Billy O'Mahony Reviewed-by: Mark D. Gray Reviewed-by: Thomas F Herbert Reviewed-by: Michal Ptacek Reviewed-by: Chris Price --- docs/userguide/quickstart.rst | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100755 docs/userguide/quickstart.rst (limited to 'docs/userguide/quickstart.rst') diff --git a/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst b/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst new file mode 100755 index 0000000..d8cbe60 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/userguide/quickstart.rst @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +.. 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. + -- cgit 1.2.3-korg