Mellanox-Neutron-Kilo-Redhat-Ethernet

=Ethernet Configuration with Mellanox= =SR-IOV Networking in OpenStack Kilo= OpenStack Juno added inbox support to request VM access to virtual network via SR-IOV NIC. With the introduction of SR-IOV based NICs, the traditional virtual bridge is no longer required. Each SR-IOV port is associated with a virtual function (VF). SR-IOV ports may be provided by Hardware-based Virtual Ethernet Bridging (HW VEB); or they may be extended to an upstream physical switch (IEEE 802.1br). There are two ways that SR-IOV port may be connected:
 * directly connected to its VF
 * connected with a macvtap device that resides on the host, which is then connected to the corresponding VF

Configuration
Configure SR-IOV

SDN Mechanism Driver
SDN Mechanism Driver allows NEO to configure dynamically VLANs on the Mellanox Switches. Further Reading
 * NEO
 * Mellanox Switches
 * SDN Mechanism Driver

Ceilometer
The Mellanox Ceilometer SR-IOV module allows the OpenStack Ceilometer to collect measurements of SR-IOV counters.

More details about applying Mellanox Ceilometer module can be found here