We had the pleasure of helping the Romana Project implement the Neutron IPAM API integration. At this meetup, our CTO, Robert Starmer will join the Romana Project‘s Chris Marino in a talk and demo of the IPAM integration provides network multi-tenancy without an overlay and using only routed layer 3 …
OpenStack Summit: Our experience with OpenStack IP Address Management (IPAM) APIs
We’ve been working with the Romana Project, an OpenStack-integrated software defined networking (SDN) solution to get their top notch IPAM solution to integrate with Neutron’s IPAM APIs. The journey was challenging, but the end result was worth the effort and provides a cloud-native SDN solution that integrates not only with …
What you Must know about Network Service Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
The Network Service is one of the three key resources in any cloud. Exactly how to approach compute has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The Virtual Machine is no longer “The” answer. Bare metal is increasingly important, especially in compute-intensive environments used for Big Data analytics. In the world …
Can’t our networks just get along? P-V converged networks can help
PLUMgrid hosted the San Francisco Bay Area OpenStack meetup this week, and we had a presentation by Gaetano Borgione on OpenStack integrated networks. I think his presentation can be summed up as follows: Virtual and Physical networks need to be cooperatively integrated from some form of central management ‘controller’, and …
Battle of the Switches: OVS vs. Linux Bridge (or “Simplicity Rules!”)
I’ve gotta come right out and say it: Open Virtual Switch– or OVS– is the wrong switch for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). That’s not to say it’s the wrong switch for virtual, or even as a base layer integration for Software Defined Networks…but it is absolutely the wrong solution …