Support Fuel installation of OpenStack over Mellanox Infiniband network

Registered by Aviram Bar-Haim

Feature Lead: Aviram Bar-Haim
Mandatory Design Reviewers: Andrey Danin
Developers: Aviram Bar-Haim, Moshe Levi, Gil Meir
QA: Motty Grosman, Amichay Polishuk, Noam Angel

Support for Mellanox high performance Ethernet virtualization and storage features has been added in Fuel 5.1. The current blueprint suggests to add support for Fuel installation of Openstack over Infinband network. InfiniBand (abbreviated IB) is a computer network communications link used in high-performance computing featuring very high throughput and very low latency.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Evgeniya Shumakher
Priority:
Low
Drafter:
Aviram Bar-Haim
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Aviram Bar-Haim
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Proposed for 6.1.x
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 6.1
Started by
Evgeniya Shumakher
Completed by
Evgeniya Shumakher

Related branches

Sprints

Whiteboard

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/support-infiniband-network,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/146346
    Blueprint: support-infiniband-network

https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel/+bug/1423150

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:mellanox_infiniband_support,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/160193
    Added Infiniband support for bootstrap image

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:interface_driver_support,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/161060
    Added driver and bus_info interface parameters

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/168713
    Added bootstrap replacement support

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/185359
    Adds a note about Infiniband support in 6.1

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Work Items

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