Netvirt Oxygen Release Details

Description

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.

Major Features Delivered in Oxygen

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  • IPv6 L3VPN enhancements for North-South and external connectivity using BGPVPNs

  • ACL support for protocols that are not supported by conntrack

  • COE Netvirt Integration support for kubernetes

  • Better SFC integration

  • Neutron Port Allocation for ODL based DHCP Service

  • SR-IOV Hardware Offload for OVS

  • Weighted NAPT Selection

  • Support for compute node scale in and scale out functionality

  • Migration to automatically configured full-mesh of VxLAN tunnels

  • Upgrade Support based on configuration replay

  • Adoption of cache utilities from infrautils

  • Adoption of auto-retrying JobCoordinator utility from infrautils

  • Adoption of ManagedNewTransactionRunner utility from genius

  • Integration with Status & Diagnostics framework from infrautils

  • Support for FCAPs with integration of metrics utility from infrautils

  • Integrated support for creation of MPLS/GRE tunnels from OVS 2.8 for L3VPNs

Quality Improvements

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  • Considerable increase in CSIT coverage and reliability

    • CSIT cleanup to make tests more reliable

    • Include more scenarios: external networks, PNF's, IPv6, SNAT, L3VPNs

  • General code cleanup

    • Adopt better transaction handling patterns

    • Memory leak cleanup

    • Better exception handling

Scale Improvements

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  •  Support for 150 nodes, using GENIUS effort of decoupling tunnel manager (ITM) from interface manager (IFM) (WIP- SR1)

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Created March 9, 2018 at 1:51 AM
Updated October 2, 2019 at 4:32 PM
Resolved April 5, 2018 at 5:18 AM