Bridgeless Networks

Owner

• Name: Roy Golan

• Email: rgolan@redhat.com

Functionality

An admin can now set a logical network as “VM network” so when attaching a Network to an Host’s NIC, a “VM network” is implemented over a bridge, otherwise bridgeless If a host network is bridgeless but should be a VM network the host will be set to non-operational state.

Also, A cluster network can be set as “optional”, meaning that host is operational as long as it have all the non-optional networks attached.

create logical network

• create network under the DC - check the “VM network” box.
• GUI may have the VM network box checked by default
• to edit this property a network should be detached from all clusters

Modified flows

Create management network

• management network is always created as optional=false

Add a Nic to VM

• validate the Nic’s network is vmNetwork - fail with canDoAction ACTION_TYPE_FAILED_NOT_A_VM_NETWORK

Import VM

• validate all Nic’s networks are vmNetwork - fire audit log IMPORT_VM_INTERFACES_ON_NON_VM_NETWORKS
• don’t fail the import

Run VM

• validate all Nic’s networks is vmNetwork - fail with canDoAction ACTION_TYPE_FAILED_NOT_A_VM_NETWORK

setupNetworks

• implicitly set VdsNetworkInterface as bridged when vmNetwork = true

Monitoring

• refresh caps (when host is activated)-
  • detect if there are VM networks that are implemented as bridgeless - if yes set host non-operational with reason VM_NETWORK_IS_BRIDGELESS
  • if a host misses cluster networks which are not optional - set as non -operational
• afterRefreshTreatment (runtime info) - same as above

REST API

• Add a logical network to the Data Center and make it a VM network

  POST /api/networks

<network id='...'>
    <name>testrest1</name>
    <data_center id='...'/>
    <stp>false</stp>
    <usages>
        <usage>VM`</usage>
    </usage>
</network>

• representation of non-bridged interface in Host NICs

  GET /api/hosts/{host.id}/nics/{nic.id}

<host_nic>
    <name>MyHostNIC</name>
    <bridged>false</bridged>
</host_nic>

Entities

• VdsNetworkInterface.java

  VdsNetworkInterface boolean bridged

• vds_interface table

  vds_interface bridged BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT true

• network.java

  boolean vmNetwork

• network table

  vm_network BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT true

• network_cluster.java

  boolean optional

• network_cluster table

  optional BOOLEAN

Modelling

Enums

• AuditLogType.java

  IMPORTEXPORT_IMPORT_VM_INTERFACES_ON_NON_VM_NETWORKS(9600,MINUTE) VDS_SET_NON_OPERATIONAL_VM_NETWORK_IS_BRIDGELESS(9601, MINUTE)

• VdcBLLMessages

  ACTION_TYPE_FAILED_NOT_A_VM_NETWORK

• NonOperationalReason.java

  VM_NETWORK_IS_BRIDGELESS(8)

Messages

• AuditLogMessage.properties

  IMPORTEXPORT_IMPORT_VM_INTERFACES_ON_NON_VM_NETWORKS=Trying to import VM ${VmName} with the interface/s ${Interfaces} attached to non VM network/s ${Networks}. VDS_SET_NON_OPERATIONAL_VM_NETWORK_IS_BRIDGELESS=Host ${VdsName} does not comply with the cluster ${VdsGroupName} networks, the following VM networks are bridgeless: ‘${Networks}’

• AppErrors.properties

  ACTION_TYPE_FAILED_NOT_A_VM_NETWORK=Failed ${action} ${type} the network/s ${Networks} is/are not a VM network.