Mellanox-Neutron-Kilo-Redhat-InfiniBand

=Overview=

Mellanox Neutron ML2 Driver
Mellanox ML2 Mechanism Driver implements the ML2 Plugin Mechanism Driver API.

This driver supports Mellanox embedded switch functionality as part of the InfiniBand HCA. Mellanox ML2 Mechanism Driver provides functional parity with Mellanox Neutron plugin.

Mellanox ML2 Mechanism Driver supports DIRECT (pci passthrough) vnic type. For vnic type configuration API details, please refer to configuration reference guide. Hardware vNICs mapped to the guest VMs allow higher performance and advanced features such as RDMA (remote direct memory access).

The driver supports VLAN network type to facilitate virtual networks either on InfiniBand fabrics.
 * Mellanox OpenStack Neutron Agent (L2 Agent) runs on each compute node.
 * Agent should apply VIF connectivity based on mapping between a VIF (VM vNIC) and Embedded Switch port.

Prerequisites
yum-config-manager --add-repo http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/openstack/kilo/rhel7/
 * A running OpenStack environment installed with the ML2 plugin on top of OpenVswitch or Linux Bridge.
 * All nodes equipped with Mellanox ConnectX®-3 Network Adapter
 * Mellanox OFED 2.4 or greater installed on all nodes. Please refer to Mellanox website for the latest OFED:
 * SR-IOV enabled on all compute nodes. For more information, please refer to Mellanox Community click.
 * The software package iproute2 installed on all Compute nodes
 * Add repository

=InfiniBand Network= The Mellanox Neutron Plugin use InfiniBand Partitions (PKeys) to separate Networks.

OpenSM Provisioning with SDN Mechanism Driver
SDN Mechanism Driver allows OpenSM dynamically assign PKs in the IB network.

More details about applying SDN Mechanism Driver with NEO can be found here

Manual OpenSM Configuration
All the PKeys should be predefined in the partitions.conf file (/etc/opensm/partitions.conf) (Automatic cofiguration is planned in future phase)

Add/Change the following in the partitions.conf file management=0x7fff,ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL, ALL_SWITCHES=full,SELF=full; vlan1=0x1, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL; vlan2=0x2, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL; vlan3=0x3, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL; vlan4=0x4, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL; vlan5=0x5, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL; vlan6=0x6, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL; vlan7=0x7, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL; vlan8=0x8, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL; vlan9=0x9, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL; vlan10=0xa, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL;

For example: If we have 10 VLANs defined in configuration in /etc/neutron/plugins/mlnx/mlnx_conf.ini

[MLNX] network_vlan_ranges = physnet1:1:10

Change the following in /etc/opensm/opensm.conf: allow_both_pkeys TRUE

4. Restart the OpenSM:
 * 1) systemctl restart opensm.service

RDO installation
To install and configure packstack

1. Install packstack
 * 1) yum install -y https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-kilo/rdo-release-kilo-1.noarch.rpm
 * 2) yum install -y openstack-packstack

2. Prepare answer file
 * 1) packstack --gen-answer-file=packstack.sriov

3. Modify answer file CONFIG_NEUTRON_OVS_BRIDGE_MAPPINGS=physnet1:br-enp3s0 CONFIG_NEUTRON_OVS_BRIDGE_IFACES=br-enp3s0:enp3s0 CONFIG_NEUTRON_ML2_TYPE_DRIVERS=vlan CONFIG_NEUTRON_ML2_TENANT_NETWORK_TYPES=vlan CONFIG_NEUTRON_ML2_VLAN_RANGES=physnet1:1:10 CONFIG_NEUTRON_L2_AGENT=openvswitch

4. Run packstack
 * 1) packstack --answer-file=packstack.sriov

Controller Node
To configure the Controller node:

1. Configure yum with Mellanox OpenStack Kilo repository
 * 1) yum-config-manager --add-repo http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/openstack/kilo/rhel7

2. Install Mellanox RPMs:
 * 1) yum install -y --nogpgcheck openstack-neutron-mellanox python-networking-mlnx

3. Make sure ML2 is the current Neutron plugin by checking the core_plugin parameter in /etc/neutron/neutron.conf: core_plugin = neutron.plugins.ml2.plugin.Ml2Plugin

4. Make sure /etc/neutron/plugin.ini is pointing to /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini (symbolic link)

5. Modify /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini by adding the following: [ml2] type_drivers = vlan,flat tenant_network_types = vlan mechanism_drivers = mlnx, openvswitch [ml2_type_vlan] network_vlan_ranges = physnet1:1:10 [eswitch] vnic_type = hostdev
 * 1) or mechanism_drivers = mlnx, linuxbridge
 * 1) (StrOpt) Type of Network Interface to allocate for VM:
 * 2) mlnx_direct or hostdev according to libvirt terminology

6. Start (or restart) the Neutron server:
 * 1) systemctl restart neutron-server.service

Network Node
To configure the Network node:

Prerequisites: E_IPoIB port is configured and up

1. Make sure that eIPoIB module is up and configured in /etc/infiniband/openib.conf: For more information, please refer to eIPoIB configuration in Mellanox OFED User Manual. E_IPOIB_LOAD=yes

2. Restart openibd:
 * 1) service openibd restart

3. Configure yum with Mellanox OpenStack Kilo repository
 * 1) yum-config-manager --add-repo http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/openstack/kilo/rhel7

4. Install Mellanox RPMs:
 * 1) yum install -y --nogpgcheck mlnx-dsnmsq

3. Modify the network bridge configuration according to the use of OpenVswitch or LinuxBridge [ovs] bridge_mappings = physnet1:br- [linux_bridge] physical_interface_mappings = physnet1:
 * 3.1 OpenVswitch /etc/neutron/plugins/openvswitch/ovs_neutron_plugin.ini
 * 3.2 LinuxBridge file /etc/neutron/plugins/linuxbridge/linuxbridge_conf.ini:

NOTE: In order to obtain the eIPoIB interface name, run the ethtool tool command (see below) and check that driver name is eth_ipoib: driver: eth_ipoib .....
 * 1) ethtool -i 

4. Restart network bridge and neutron-dhcp-agent:
 * 1) service neutron-dhcp-agent restart
 * 4.1 OpenVswitch
 * 1) service neutron-openvswitch-agent restart
 * 4.2 LinuxBridge
 * 1) service neutron-linuxbridge-agent restart

NOTE: For DHCP support, the Network node should use the Mellanox Dnsmasq driver as the DHCP driver.

DHCP Server (Usually part of the Network node)
1. Modify /etc/neutron/dhcp_agent.ini as follows and according to OVS or Linuxbridge: dhcp_driver = mlnx_dhcp.MlnxDnsmasq dhcp_broadcast_reply = True 1.1 For OVS interface_driver = neutron.agent.linux.interface.OVSInterfaceDriver 1.2 For Linux Bridge interface_driver = neutron.agent.linux.interface.BridgeInterfaceDriver

2. Start DHCP server:
 * 1) systemctl restart neutron-dhcp-agent.service

Compute Nodes
To configure the Compute Node:

1.Configure yum with Mellanox OpenStack Kilo repository
 * 1) yum-config-manager --add-repo http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/openstack/kilo/rhel7

2. Install Mellanox RPMs:
 * 1) yum install --nogpgcheck -y openstack-neutron-mellanox eswitchd  python-networking-mlnx

3. Edit the following file: /usr/lib/systemd/system/neutron-mlnx-agent.service Change the /etc/neutron/plugins/mlnx/mlnx.ini to /etc/neutron/plugins/mlnx/mlnx_conf.ini

4. Run:
 * 1) systemctl enable neutron-mlnx-agent.service

5. Run:
 * 1) systemctl daemon-reload

6. Apply MLNX patch for Kilo:
 * 1) pushd /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/libvirt/
 * 2) wget http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/openstack/kilo/patch/mlnx_kilo.patch
 * 3) patch < mlnx_kilo.patch
 * 4) popd

7. Create the file /etc/modprobe.d/mlx4_ib.conf and add the following: options mlx4_ib sm_guid_assign=0

8. Restart Nova:
 * 1) systemctl restart openstack-nova-compute

9. Restart the driver:
 * 1) /bin/systemctl restart opensm.service
 * 2) /etc/init.d/openibd restart

10. In the file /etc/neutron/plugins/mlnx/mlnx_conf.ini, the parameters tenant_network_type, and network_vlan_ranges should be configured as the controllers: physical_interface_mappings = physnet1:(for example physnet1:ib0)

11. Modify the file /etc/eswitchd/eswitchd.conf as follows: fabrics = physnet1: (for example physnet1:ib0)

12. Start eSwitchd:
 * 1) systemctl restart eswitchd

13. Start the Neutron agent:
 * 1) systemctl restart neutron-mlnx-agent

Known issues and Troubleshooting
For known issues and troubleshooting options refer to Mellanox OpenStack Troubleshooting