[ovs-discuss] about use ovs to construct complex virtual network topologies

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Thu Jan 10 17:21:33 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Weiwei Fang <fangvv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, hi!
>
> I am a new user to ovs. I am now having a project which needs to construct
> virtual network topology. I want to use ovs but I don't know if the
> following requirements can be satisfied.
>
> I want to construct a topology with four ovs, namely o1, o2, o3 and o4. The
> connection is o1-o3, o1-o4, o2-o3, o2-o4. For o1 and o2, I want to bind each
> of them to two real NIC (while in the cookbook, we bind only one NIC),
> through which each ovs can connect to two real switches outside. For o3 and
> o4, I don't want to bind them to any real NIC, but the VMs will connect to
> them. Actually, this is a three-level network, in which the low level ovs
> (o3, o4) connect to VMs, which the mid level ovs (o1, o2) connects to two
> high level real switches. The VMs can be inter-connected.
>
> I don't know if it is possible to do that? Thanks for your kindly help!

It's likely possible but please try it and come back if you have
specific questions.



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