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Welcome to NetVirt

Introduction

NetVirt is a network virtualization solution that includes the following components as well as others: Open vSwitch based virtualization for software switches, Hardware VTEP for hardware switches, Service Function Chaining support within a virtualized environment, support for OVS and DPDK-accelerated OVS data paths, L3VPN (BGPVPN), EVPN, ELAN, distributed L2 and L3, NAT and Floating IPs, IPv6, Security Groups, MAC and IP learning.

Netvirt would provide the following modules --


  • NeutronVPN:

             Creates and maintains the VPN information like VpnInstances, VpnInterfaces, VpnMaps, etc.

  • VpnManager:

             Creates and maintains the Vpn Operational Information like VpnFootPrint, VpnInstanceOpData, VpnInterfaceOpData, etc.

  • FibManager:

             Creates the L3 Forwarding Information Base (FIB) rules which is understandable by OFPlugin module and write all the populated data into FRM data store (Config-Inventory-DS)

  • BgpManager:

             It is used for communicating between ODL Application to Quagga(Routing Engine) via Thrift Protocol. Also it provides the support for Quagga Advertised routes from DC-GW to ODL FIB Engine.

  • DHCPService:

              It is used for providing DHCPv4 Server functionality as same as Openstack QDHCP Agent service.

  • ACLService:

              It provides the ACL (Access Control List) in both INGRESS and EGRESS mode to VM booted neutron port.

  • NATService:

           It provides the NATing service to openstack tenant VMs in the flavor of SNAT/Floating-IP(DNAT)  for Internet Connectivity purpose.



Project Facts

Project Creation Date: April 7,2016
Primary Contact: karthikeyan Krishnan <karthikeyangceb007@gmail.com> (#karthikeyan)
Project Lead:  karthikeyan Krishnan <karthikeyangceb007@gmail.com>
Committers:  This field will need to be maintained by the PTL.  LF is currently working on automating this in the future

Emeritus Committers:

Mailing List:  app-dev@lists.opendaylight.org

Meetings: See Community Meetings Ensure Meetings listed on central Meeting page
Repository: 
git clone  https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/netvirt
Jenkins: netvirt Jenkins Silo
Open Bugs: Open Bugs

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