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Ml2-huawei-switch-mech-driver

Revision as of 03:16, 19 November 2014 by Liaowenqi (talk | contribs) (Configuration)

Overview

Huawei ML2 Mechanism Driver implement ML2 Plugin Mechanism Driver API. This driver can manage all types of Huawei switches. For further details, please refer to Huawei OpenStack Deployment Guide provided by Huawei.

Note: Initial version of this driver supports single network type and multi-segmented networks.

Prerequisites

Directory Structure

The Huawei Neutron ML2 Driver can be downloaded from the repository located at:

https://github.com/huaweiswitch/neutron


This repository represents code that will be put into the huawei directory as:

/master/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/huawei

Configuration

Huawei Driver configuration

  • Edit /etc/neutron/neutron.conf:
core_plugin = ml2


  • Edit /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini:
type_drivers = vlan
tenant_network_types = vlan
mechanism_drivers = openvswitch,huawei


  • Edit /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf_huawei.ini:
hostaddr = 192.168.0.1
username = admin
password = password
portname = 10GE1/0/1


  • Start the neutron service by providing the relevant configuration files:
cd <neutron_path> && python <neutron_path>/bin/neutron-server --config-file /etc/neutron/neutron.conf --config-file /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini --config-file /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf_huawei.ini


  • Finally, restart neutron-server:
service neutron-server restart