[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch configuration persistence
Reid Price
rprice at nicira.com
Mon Aug 26 17:20:07 UTC 2013
OVS by itself saves configuration through boots, etc., ovsdb is transactional (usually stored in /etc/openvswitch/conf.db). Xen removes that config on boot up.
On Aug 26, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Faisal Ali <justhugoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Reid, so just so Iam clear, is it because ovs is not meant to save the config? The reason I ask is I read it in a blog that it does save it.
>
> On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:40 AM, Reid Price <rprice at nicira.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Faisal,
>>
>> Xen only persists its own OVS information, and recreates it from scratch (xapi information) at boot.
>>
>> -Reid
>>
>> On Aug 25, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Faisal Ali <justhugoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using xenserver 6.2 which has openvswitch version 1.4.6 running.
>>>
>>> When I configure ovs using ovs commands it does not save the configuration and its lost after reboot.
>>>
>>> I am not sure if this how ovs works or Xen has a modified implementation of ovs that does not allow to permanently save the configuration.
>>>
>>> Please let me know what is the correct way if any or my assumptions are incorrect
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Faisal Ali
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