[ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH v1 1/3] datapath-windows: Introduce HNS OVS calls

[Alin Serdean]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ovs-dev-bounces at openvswitch.org <ovs-dev-
> bounces at openvswitch.org> On Behalf Of Alin Gabriel Serdean
> Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 2:26 AM
> To: dev at openvswitch.org
> Cc: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserdean at ovn.org>
> Subject: [ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH v1 1/3] datapath-windows: Introduce HNS OVS
> calls
> 
> We introduce a new powershell module for interacting with HNS (host network
> service):
> https://github.com/Microsoft/SDN/blob/master/Kubernetes/windows/hns.psm
> 1
> 
> In our repository this shall be named HNSHelper.psm1.
> 
> We also add five new commandlets in our OVS powershell module:
> Disable-OVSOnHNSNetwork - disable OVS extension on a given HNS network.
> Enable-OVSOnHNSNetwork - enable OVS extension on a given HNS network.
> Get-OVSEnabledHNSNetworks - return the HNS network on which OVS is
> enabled.
> Add-OVSHNSInternalPort - will add a new internal port with he name: `name`, on
>                          the HNS network, which has OVS enabled. This port
>                          shall use the host compartment.
> Delete-OVSHNSInternalPort - will delete an internal port with name: `name` on a
>                             HNS network which has OVS enabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alin Gabriel Serdean <aserdean at ovn.org>
> ---

[Alin Serdean] For future references:
HNS API has been renamed to HCN (host compute networking).

An API schema has been released and documented under:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/hcn/hcn-top#features-of-the-hcn-service-api

The patchset was using an undocumented version of the V1 HNS API
via the official Microsoft repository:
https://github.com/microsoft/SDN/blob/710cad6fc9025c86e04ef5daa6eb53f577802448/Kubernetes/windows/hns.psm1