1 == OVSDB OpenStack Installation Guide
4 This guide is geared towards installing OpenDaylight to use the OVSDB project to provide Neutron support for OpenStack.
6 Open vSwitch (OVS) is generally accepted as the unofficial standard for Virtual Switching in the Open hypervisor based solutions.
7 For information on OVS, see http://openvswitch.org/[Open vSwitch].
9 With OpenStack within the SDN context, controllers and applications interact using two channels: OpenFlow and OVSDB. OpenFlow addresses the forwarding-side of the OVS functionality. OVSDB, on the other hand, addresses the management-plane.
10 A simple and concise overview of Open Virtual Switch Database (OVSDB) is available at: http://networkstatic.net/getting-started-ovsdb/
12 === Pre Requisites for Installing OVSDB OpenStack
14 * A distribution of OpenDaylight
16 === Preparing for Installation
17 . Download a copy of the latest OpenDaylight release in a Pre-Build archive of your choosing.
18 http://www.opendaylight.org/software/downloads[Download OpenDaylight]
21 === Installing OVSDB OpenStack
22 . Extract the OpenDaylight distribution somewhere.
23 . Navigate to the /bin/ directory
24 . Execute the karaf binary file, that should bring up the OpenDaylight console
25 . Install the required features with these commands:
26 feature:install odl-ovsdb-openstack
28 ===== Sample output from the Karaf console
30 opendaylight-user@root>feature:list -i | grep ovsdb
31 odl-ovsdb-southbound-api | 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT | x | odl-ovsdb-southbound-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT
32 OpenDaylight :: southbound :: api
33 odl-ovsdb-southbound-impl | 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT | x | odl-ovsdb-southbound-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT
34 OpenDaylight :: southbound :: impl
35 odl-ovsdb-southbound-impl-rest | 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT | x | odl-ovsdb-southbound-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT
36 OpenDaylight :: southbound :: impl :: REST
37 odl-ovsdb-southbound-impl-ui | 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT | x | odl-ovsdb-southbound-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT
38 OpenDaylight :: southbound :: impl :: UI
39 odl-ovsdb-openstack | 1.1.0-SNAPSHOT | x | ovsdb-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT
40 OpenDaylight :: OVSDB :: OpenStack Network Virtual
43 === Verifying your Installation
44 To verify that the installation was successful, use the log:display command in karaf and check that there are no errors
45 logs relating to odl-ovsdb-openstack.
48 There is no easy way to troubleshoot an installation of odl-ovsdb-openstack. Perhaps a combination of
49 log:display | grep -i ovsdb in karaf, Open vSwitch commands (ovs-vsctl) and OpenStack logs will be useful but will not
52 === Uninstalling OVSDB OpenStack
53 . Shutdown the karaf instance: system:shutdown
54 . Remove what is in the /data folder of the OpenDaylight Distribution.