OVN
- 1.L2/L3虚拟网络以及逻辑交换机(logical switch)
- 2.L2/L3/L4 ACL
- 3.IPv4/IPv6分布式L3路由
- 4.ARP and IPv6 Neighbor Discovery suppression for known IP-MAC bindings
- 5.Native support for NAT and load balancing using OVS connection tracking
- 6.Native fully distributed support for DHCP
- 7.Works with any OVS datapath (such as the default Linux kernel datapath, DPDK, or Hyper-V) that supports all required features (namely Geneve tunnels and OVS connection tracking)
- 8.Supports L3 gateways from logical to physical networks
- 9.Supports software-based L2 gateways
- 10.Supports TOR (Top of Rack) based L2 gateways that implement the hardware_vtep schema
- 11.Can provide networking for both VMs and containers running inside of those VMs, without a second layer of overlay networking
OVN由以下组件构成：
- northbound database：存储逻辑交换机、路由器、ACL、端口等的信息，目前基于ovsdb-server，未来可能会支持etcd v3
- ovn-northd: 集中式控制器，负责把northbound database数据分发到各个ovn-controller
- ovn-controller: 运行在每台机器上的本地SDN控制器
- southbound database：基于ovsdb-server（未来可能会支持etcd v3），包含三类数据
- 物理网络数据，比如VM的IP地址和隧道封装格式
- 逻辑网络数据，比如报文转发方式
- 物理网络和逻辑网络的绑定关系
补充说明
- Data Path：OVN的实现简单有效，都是基于OVS原生的功能特性来做的（由于OVN的实现不依赖于内核特性，这些功能在OVS+DPDK上也完全支持），比如
- security policies 基于 OVS+conntrack 实现
- 分布式L3路由基于OVS flow实现
- Logical Flows：逻辑流表，会由ovn-northd分发给每台机器的ovn-controller，然后ovn-controller再把它们转换为物理流表
wget -o /etc/yum.repos.d/ovs-master.repo https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/leifmadsen/ovs-master/repo/epel-7/leifmadsen-ovs-master-epel-7.repo
yum install openvswitch openvswitch-ovn-*
apt-get install -y openvswitch-switch ovn-central ovn-common ovn-controller-vtep ovn-docker ovn-host
控制节点：
# start ovsdb-server
/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl start --system-id=random
# start ovn northd
/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovn-ctl start_northd
export CENTRAL_IP=10.140.0.2
export LOCAL_IP=10.140.0.2
export ENCAP_TYPE=vxlan
ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . external_ids:ovn-remote="tcp:$CENTRAL_IP:6642" external_ids:ovn-nb="tcp:$CENTRAL_IP:6641" external_ids:ovn-encap-ip=$LOCAL_IP external_ids:ovn-encap-type="$ENCAP_TYPE"
计算节点：
# start ovsdb-server
/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl start --system-id=random
# start ovn-controller and vtep
/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovn-ctl start_controller
/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovn-ctl start_controller_vtep
export CENTRAL_IP=10.140.0.2
export LOCAL_IP=10.140.0.2
export ENCAP_TYPE=vxlan
ovs-vsctl set Open_vSwitch . external_ids:ovn-remote="tcp:$CENTRAL_IP:6642" external_ids:ovn-nb="tcp:$CENTRAL_IP:6641" external_ids:ovn-encap-ip=$LOCAL_IP external_ids:ovn-encap-type="$ENCAP_TYPE"
对于ovs 1.7，还需要设置
ovn-nbctl set-connection ptcp:6641
ovn-sbctl set-connection ptcp:6642