[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch configuration persistence

[Faisal Ali]

Thanks for the clarification Reid

On Aug 26, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Reid Price <rprice at nicira.com> wrote:

> 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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