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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack

You're reading from   Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack Leverage the best SDN technologies for your OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786465993
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sriram Subramanian Sriram Subramanian
Author Profile Icon Sriram Subramanian
Sriram Subramanian
Sreenivas Voruganti Sreenivas Voruganti
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Sreenivas Voruganti
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Preface 1. OpenStack Networking in a Nutshell FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Software-Defined Networking 3. SDN Protocols 4. SDN Networking with Open vSwitch 5. Getting Started with OpenDaylight 6. Using OpenDaylight with OpenStack 7. Getting Started with OpenContrail 8. OpenContrail Networking with OpenStack 9. Open Network Operating System (ONOS) 10. OVN and Open vSwitch Enhancements

Virtual network management in OpenContrail


Let us now take a quick look at the process of creating a virtual network in OpenContrail and how it can be leveraged to provision a VM instance in OpenStack.

Creating virtual networks and VM instances

The steps given here will be important for understanding the service chaining concepts later in this chapter:

  1. The first step in creating a virtual network (VN) is to click on the icon for Configure in the OpenContrail navigation bar, as highlighted previously. The following screen should be displayed:

  2. Navigate to Networking | Networks and click on the + sign on the right-hand side of the screen. This will allow users to create a virtual network in OpenContrail.

  3. Enter a name for the VN and in the Subnets tab, click on the + sign to add a subnet for this network, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Once the network creation is successful, you will see the entry in the Networks table of OpenContrail, as shown in the following screenshot:

  5. We can log...

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