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VMware + Neutron bridging problem

asked 2014-07-24 22:54:15 -0500

AlexShumilov gravatar image

Hello! I have an ESXi cluster with 5 VM's: ActiveDirectory, vCenter, Openstack Compute, Openstack Controller, Openstack Network (three last ones were set up as in the tutorial, OS: Ubuntu LTS 14.04, Openstack version: Icehouse). After setup there was a problem - VM's could not be launched because of "Host not found error". Logs said this:

 ... >in get_neutron_network\n    raise exception.NetworkNotFoundForBridge(bridge=bridge)\n', u'NetworkNotFoundForBridge: Network could not be found for bridge br-int\n']

So, I've created three new networks in vCenter (br-tun, br-ext and br-int), attached them to corresponding VM's, put interfaces in promiscuous mode, so the error was gone, I could successfully create instances. So, the first question:

1. Is it correct that I've created these networks manually? When I was using the FlatDHCPManager, it created the br100 by himself. Also, forr example, network node has these ip -a output (5 ethernet interfaces + bridges!)

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:50:56:98:57:14 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.46.15/24 brd 192.168.46.255 scope global eth0
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe98:5714/64 scope link
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:50:56:98:76:75 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.0.1.15/24 brd 10.0.1.255 scope global eth1
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe98:7675/64 scope link
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master ovs-system state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:50:56:98:71:d5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe98:71d5/64 scope link
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
5: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0c:29:48:2b:d2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: eth4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0c:29:48:2b:dc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: eth5: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0c:29:48:2b:e6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: ovs-system: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
link/ether 1e:57:d8:14:5f:53 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
9: br-ex: <BROADCAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
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I've just checked out one maillist, and it said that I cannot setup Neutron without VMware NSX installed - is it true? Can I use FlatDCHP manager without NSX?

AlexShumilov gravatar imageAlexShumilov ( 2014-07-25 00:35:05 -0500 )edit
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answered 2014-07-25 02:59:23 -0500

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AFAIK it is possible to use a neutron-plugin that is compatible with your compute virtualization technology. You could find a neutron-plugin compatibility matrix here (Table 7.4. Plug-in compatibility with Compute drivers)

If you do not have NSX (that works with Libvirt (KVM/QEMU), XenServer and VMware ESX) you could use the nova-network approach in order to get a full working openstack-vmware installation (although it has many limitations, try to find out if it fits your needs). For example, I used this technique to install a KVM + ESX openstack installation (multihypervisor installation).

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Thanks a lot for reply! I guess that any plugin requires the installed NSX, so I am not able to use Neutron. However, I am thinking about your proposal, because flat network with externally accessible IP addresses suits me. So, you did not have NSX and successfully used the nova-network?

AlexShumilov gravatar imageAlexShumilov ( 2014-07-25 04:37:14 -0500 )edit

Yes, I successfully used nova-network approach in order to use ESX hosts without NSX.

Here additional info explained in a previous answer. I used in that case VMwareESXdriver and not VCDriver.

Although nova-network approach works with havana release (and maybe with icehouse, i didn't test it), I red that nova-network support will be removed. Try to read carrefully about deprecation paths of nova network (this is just a hint) and maybe think about future migrations to neutron (at the moment not an easy-to-do process).

Antonio G. gravatar imageAntonio G. ( 2014-07-25 05:04:00 -0500 )edit

Thank again for help! I was about to try VCDriver, but I figured out what the problem was:)

AlexShumilov gravatar imageAlexShumilov ( 2014-08-01 02:34:37 -0500 )edit
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answered 2014-08-01 02:36:02 -0500

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The problem was because of I did not specified same VLAN ID for br100. So, I was bridging EXTERNAL VMware network, which had 45 VLAN, to br100 network, which did not have VLAN defined. Setting br100 as 45 VLAN ID in vCenter solved the issue.

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I didn't understand what you did and how you solved. Which network solution do you use nova or neutron network by using that technique.

enis454545 gravatar imageenis454545 ( 2016-04-02 14:02:47 -0500 )edit
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