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

[Jesse Gross]

Presumably that's the easiest but please take some time to investigate yourself.

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Weiwei Fang <fangvv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Jesse. And I want to ask, if I want to put all these four ovs to
> work in a physical host, whether they should be configured as four bridges?
>
>
> 2013/1/11 Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
>>
>> 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.