Neutron/NEC OpenFlow Plugin

[Note] In Kilo development cycle, Neutron community decides to move vendor specific codes into separate repositories. NEC OpenFlow plugin is now available at https://git.openstack.org/stackforge/networking-nec.

Project Links

• Git: https://github.com/stackforge/networking-nec
• Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/networking-nec
• PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/networking-nec

Introduction

NEC OpenFlow plugin talks to OpenFlow Controller and each Neutron would be mapped to an virtual layer-2 network slice on an OpenFlow enabled network. The interface between the Neutron plugin and OpenFlow Controller is RESTful API. This API is supported by two implementations:

• Trema Sliceable Switch (OSS)
• NEC ProgrammableFlow Controller (NEC Commercial Product).

More detail is available at https://github.com/stackforge/networking-nec/blob/master/doc/source/readme.rst

Using NEC OpenFlow plugin

• DevStack (with Kilo or later)
• Manual installation
• Configuration Guide

Note for Juno DevStack users:

• Devstack support of NEC OpenFlow plugin is a part of the official devstack (http://github.com/openstack-dev/devstack) from Grizzly.
• Detail instruction and sample devstack configuration examples (localrc) are available at https://github.com/nec-openstack/devstack-neutron-nec-openflow/wiki .