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OpenStack Networking Cookbook

You're reading from   OpenStack Networking Cookbook Harness the power of OpenStack Networking for public and private clouds using 90 hands-on recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785286100
Length 282 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sriram Subramanian Sriram Subramanian
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Chandan Dutta Chandan Dutta
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with OpenStack Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Open vSwitch for VLAN-Based Networks 3. Exploring Other Network Types in Neutron 4. Exploring Overlay Networks with Neutron 5. Managing IP Addresses in Neutron 6. Using Routing Services in Neutron 7. Using Neutron Security and Firewall Services 8. Using HAProxy for Load Balancing 9. Monitoring OpenStack Networks 10. Writing Your Own Neutron ML2 Mechanism Driver 11. Troubleshooting Tips for Neutron 12. Advanced Topics Index

Introduction


Due to the dynamic nature of virtual infrastructure and multiple users sharing the same cloud platform, the OpenStack administrator needs to track how the tenants use the resources. In this chapter, we will look at ways to monitor the usage of virtual and physical networking resources. The resource utilization data can be used to bill the users of a public cloud and to debug infrastructure-related problems. The data can also help in capacity planning by giving an estimate of the capacity of the physical devices and trends of resource usage.

OpenStack Ceilometer project provides you with telemetry service. It can measure the usage of resources by collecting statistics across the various OpenStack components. The resource utilization data is collected over the message bus or by polling the various components. OpenStack Neutron provides Ceilometer with the statistics that are related to the virtual networks.

The following figure shows you how Ceilometer interacts with the Neutron...

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