[Rdo-list] Objective - Feasible ?

[Steve Gordon]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Young" <ayoung at redhat.com>
> To: rdo-list at redhat.com
> 
> On 04/23/2015 04:59 AM, Outback Dingo wrote:
> > Hi we are looking to deploy a new lab, for the feature set we would
> > like the following
> >
> > RDO Centos 7.1 Kilo with XENServer 6.5, RiakCS and OpenDayLight
> > controller.
> >
> > Basically We prefer XenServer to KVM, and wish to roll a RiakCS
> > storage cluster,
> > for Networking OpenDayLight managing the Network pieces, Ive figured
> > out how to
> > deploy the pieces, XenServer, no brainer..... RiakCS in a 3 node
> > cluster ok.... check
> > OpenDayLight.... on a node...... check... is it possible to use RDO to
> > "wrap" them all
> > together into a viable working solution, im not afraid of some manual
> > intervention.
> > Any insight into the pieces is welcome but it might be out of RDOs
> > capabilities.
> 
> RDO doesn't cover OpenDaylight.  Unless someone has made OpenDaylight to
> Keystone integration, I think you are going to have an authorization
> quagmire on your hands.

Dan Radez and others had I believe done some work on PackStack integration of ODL in support of OPNFV.

> I don't think Nova is capable of talking to OpenDaylight, so booting a
> compute node and getting it on the Network is going to be broken at
> worst, problematic at best.

I may be missing something here, but how is the ODL ML2 plugin different to any other ML2 plugin in this respect? Per the above there has been some work done on this, and testing of it, albeit focused on KVM in the context of OPNFV.

> No clue on how good the Xen support is  (suspect it is OK), but I think
> that is the least of your problems with this setup.

Thanks,

Steve