This session is a 201 level technical deep dive on the VMware/Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). NVP is a virtual networking platform powering many OpenStack production environments as the networking engine behind Quantum. In this session we’ll explore the distributed systems architecture of the NVP Controller Cluster, the core functionality and behavior of NVP’s primary system components, and the logical networking devices and security tools NVP produces for consumption. High availability deployments, and packet flows for common scenarios will be discussed. And finally, we’ll take a look at how the physical network fabric can be architected for NVP deployments.
Some of the session topics include:
System Components Review
NVP Controller Cluster Hypervisor Nodes NVP Gateway Nodes NVP Service Nodes
NVP Controller Cluster
Scale-out control plane & HA control and management channels
NVP enabled Hypervisors
Scale-out data plane
NVP Security Groups
NVP Logical Network Devices
Logical Switches
Logical Routers
QoS, NA T, Monitoring, Security
NVP Gateways
Scale-out & HA
Connecting to external networks
Physical network design with NVP