Mellanox Embedded Switch (NIC) plugin

Registered by Irena Berezovsky

The proposal is to implement Quantum L2 plugin that support Mellanox embedded Switch functionality as part of the Ethernet/InfiniBand NIC, allowing hardware vNICs (based on SR-IOV VFs) per each VM vNIC with its unique connectivity, security, and QoS attributes. NIC based switching provides better performance, functionality, and security/isolation for virtual cloud environments.
This plugin will be implemented according to Plugin-Agent pattern.
-- Plugin: Will processes Quantum API calls, manage network segmentation id allocation and support L2 and L3 Agents to provide Network connectivity.
-- L2 Agent: Will run on each compute node, get a mapping between a VIF and Embedded Switch port and apply VIF connectivity.
A nova VIF Driver will be provided for Embedded Switch port creation and vNIC binding (Para-virtualized or SR-IOV with optional RDMA guest access).

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
None
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Irena Berezovsky
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Irena Berezovsky
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for havana
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 2013.2
Started by
Irena Berezovsky
Completed by
Mark McClain

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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/mellanox-quantum-plugin,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/24059
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