Plan to deploy OpenDaylight

Let's get our hands dirty and build our first ODL installation. We will start by preparing a virtual environment and creating an ODL controller. We will use the basis of this deployed controller in later parts of this book.

Also, we will look at the highly available distributed deployment model as a pilot, but we will not use it in future chapters.

Let's have a look at ODL deployment models. First, let's discuss the standalone model:

• In this model, the ODL controller will be deployed as a standalone server. All components of ODL will be installed and enabled on the same instance.
• This type of deployment will be enough for small to medium installations or lab environments.
• Remember that standalone installation doesn't mean that you will not have redundancy or any level of high availability. Thanks to the available enterprise virtual environment features-such as vMotion or HA, which are available in most virtual environments (VMware vSphere, OpenStack, Xen, Proxmox,...