Mellanox-Neutron-Liberty-Ubuntu-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

 * 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 (http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=119)
 * Mellanox OFED 2.4 or greater installed on all nodes. Please refer to Mellanox website for the latest OFED: http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=26&mtag=linux_sw_drivers
 * SR-IOV enabled on all compute nodes. For more information, please refer to Mellanox Community click.
 * The software package iproute2 - (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2 ) installed on all Compute nodes

=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
To configure OpenSM:

1. Make sure that all the PKeys are predefined in the /etc/opensm/partitions.conf. management=0xffff,ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL, ALL_SWITCHES=full,SELF=full;

2. For every network you want to configure in Neutron, you have to configure the PKey associated with the VLAN of this network (defined in Neutron): vlan1=0x1, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL;

Below is an example of the configuration of the partitions.conf file in case you have 10 VLANs defined in the configuration of the file: /etc/neutron/plugins/mlnx/mlnx_conf.ini. ( network_vlan_ranges = physnet1:1:10) management=0x7fff,ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full : ALL, ALL_SWITCHES=full,SELF=full; vlan1=0x1, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS; vlan2=0x2, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS; vlan3=0x3, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS; vlan4=0x4, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS; vlan5=0x5, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS; vlan6=0x6, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS; vlan7=0x7, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS; vlan8=0x8, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS; vlan9=0x9, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS; vlan10=0xa, ipoib, sl=0, defmember=full: ALL_CAS;

4. Modify the following line in the file /etc/opensm/opensm.conf from FALSE to TRUE: allow_both_pkeys TRUE

5. Restart the OpenSM:
 * 1) service opensmd restart

Controller Node
To configure the Controller node: 1 wget http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/openstack/liberty/ubuntu/14.04/python-networking-mlnx_7.0.0-1_all.deb 2.wget http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/openstack/liberty/ubuntu/14.04/eswitchd_1.0.0-18_amd64.deb Install Mellanox DEB:
 * 1) sudo apt-get install -y neutron-plugin-mlnx
 * 2) sudo dpkg  -i python-networking-mlnx_7.0.0-1_all.deb
 * 3) sudo dpkg  -i eswitchd_1.0.0-18_amd64.deb

3. Edit the following file: /etc/init.d/neutron-mlnx-agent Change the /etc/neutron/plugins/mlnx/mlnx.ini to /etc/neutron/plugins/mlnx/mlnx_conf.ini

4. 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

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

6. 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
 * 1) or mechanism_drivers = mlnx, linuxbridge

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

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. 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-linuxbridge-agent restart
 * 4.2 LinuxBridge
 * 1) service neutron-openvswitch-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 interface_driver = neutron.agent.linux.interface.OVSInterfaceDriver
 * 1) or interface_driver = neutron.agent.linux.interface.BridgeInterfaceDriver

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

Compute Nodes
To configure the Compute Node:

1 wget http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/openstack/liberty/ubuntu/14.04/python-networking-mlnx_7.0.0-1_all.deb 2.wget http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/openstack/liberty/ubuntu/14.04/eswitchd_1.0.0-18_amd64.deb Install Mellanox DEB:
 * 1) sudo apt-get install -y neutron-plugin-mlnx neutron-plugin-mlnx-agent
 * 2) sudo dpkg  -i python-networking-mlnx_7.0.0-1_all.deb
 * 3) sudo dpkg  -i eswitchd_1.0.0-18_amd64.deb

3. Run:
 * 1) initctl start neutron-plugin-mlnx-agent

4. Verify correct name of Mellanox agent service:
 * 1) sed -i s/neutron-plugin-mlnx-agent/neutron-mlnx-agent/g /etc/init/neutron-plugin-mlnx-agent.conf

5. 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:
 * 1) physical_interface_mappings = physnet1:(for example physnet1:ib0)

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

7. Start eSwitchd:
 * 1) initctl start eswitchd

8. Start the Neutron agent:
 * 1) initctl start neutron-plugin-mlnx-agent

9. Restart Nova compute:
 * 1) service nova-compute restart

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