OpenStack Guide

Supported Deployment Topologies

The AFM Plug-in supports the following topologies: Six S4810 switches with two aggregation nodes and four access

nodes.

The AFM Plugin is installed on the OpenStack Controller Node. The Dell OVS Agent is installed on each Nova Compute

node and Network node. At runtime, the OpenStack Neutron Server communicates with the AFM Server through a

restful API to manage the physical topology.

Pre-requisites for Using the Plug-In

Before you use the AFM plug-in for OpenStack:

• Install and configure OpenStack software, Ubuntu 12.0.4 (LTS). For information about this topic, see http://

docs.openstack.org/grizzly/basic-install/apt/content/

A typical deployment scenario is one controller node, one network node, and a series of nova compute nodes. The

OpenStack Neutron server is installed on the controller node. After the installation, make sure all the services are

started on all the nodes and the VMs can be launched before you apply the AFM plug-in for OpenStack.