Quantum Admin Docs

Registered by dan wendlandt

Documentation targeting an administrator that is setting up and running Quantum integrated with Nova.

Plan is to keep this documentation plugin-agnostic, with the idea being that plugins will provide their own docs.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
None
Priority:
High
Drafter:
None
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
dan wendlandt
Definition:
New
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
None
Started by
dan wendlandt
Completed by
dan wendlandt

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Whiteboard

Rough outline:

What is Quantum?
  * keep it practical, focus on integration with nova (Link to why Quantum? for more info)
  * explain notion of quantum having a "pool" of capacity to use to implement virtual netwoks.
  * High-level diagram.

Running Quantum
  * selecting a host
  * getting the code
    * release
    * trunk
  * selecting the plugin
    * plugin-specific config (links to other sections or appendix?)
  * Quantum service configuration (if needed)
  * running the service
  * CLI basics + validation

Running Nova with Quantum Manager
  * what versions are required.
  * setting appropriate flags
    * quantummanager flag
    * likely need to set a vifplugging flag.
  * link to plugin-specific nova configuration
    * OVS vif plugging, integration bridge.
  * Specifying the set of NICs that a VM will get.
 * "priority" field.
 * os-create-X extension.
  * creating standard networks with nova-manage, and the nova-manage quantum_list command.
  * QM does not support dhcp yet.
  * creating networks with directly against quantum + melange, then telling nova about them.

Dashboard and Quantum
 * it appears that this doesn't really work with D4… perhaps skip this section for now.

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