neutron-zvm-plugin 8.0.0

How to Install

Run the following command to install neutron zvm agent in the system:

$ python setup.py install

Configuration

This section describes configuration settings related to Neutron zvm plugin.

In neutron.conf, set:

[DEFAULT]
base_mac = <zvm-base_mac>
core_plugin = ml2

In addition, in ml2_conf.ini:

[ml2]
mechanism_drivers = zvm
type_drivers = ml2
tenant_network_types = local,flat,vlan
[ml2_type_flat]
flat_networks = <vswitch-name-list>

Finally, in neutron_zvm_plugin.ini:

[AGENT]
zvm_host = <zvm-compute-host-name>
zvm_xcat_server = <xcat-server-ip-addr>
zvm_xcat_username = <xcat-admin-username>
zvm_xcat_password = <xcat-admin-password>

Where:

<zvm-base-mac>: Base MAC address that is used to generate MAC for virtual interfaces specified as 6 pairs of hexadecimal digits separated by colons (for example, 02:00:00:EE:00:00). The first three pairs of hexadecimal digits should be the same as USERPREFIX in the VMLAN statement in the z/VM SYSTEM CONFIG file. You can modify the fourth pair to any range, as appropriate to your system. The final two pairs of hexadecimal digits for the MAC address should be 00 and will be replaced with generated values.

<vswitch-name-list>: List of z/VM vswitch names with which flat networks can be created.

<zvm-compute-host-name>: Same value as specified for the host property in nova.conf. This is a unique identifier of the compute node.

<xcat-server-ip-addr>: The xCAT MN IP address or host name.

<xcat-admin-username>: The user name of the xCAT REST (Representational State Transfer) API user.

<xcat-admin-password>: The password of the xCAT REST (Representational State Transfer) API user.

References

zVM: http://www.vm.ibm.com/ zVM networking: http://www.vm.ibm.com/networking/