[ovs-discuss] multiple controller for a given OVS

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Sep 6 16:26:13 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 04:52:26PM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2013 2:07 AM, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:03:14PM -0400, Mohammad Banikazemi wrote:
> > > Can an OVS be set to have more than one controller such that if one
> > > controller fails another controller can be used by the switch?
> >
> > No.  OVS supports multiple controllers but it always connects to all
> > of them, there is no notion of "primary" and "secondary".
> 
> Does this mean that all controlled equal and can control ovs in same time?

Yes, they can do that.

> How can I add two controllers to ovs bridge?

ovs-vsctl set-controller



More information about the discuss mailing list