OpenStack Integration requires Modular Layer 2 (ML2) Mechanism Driver and L3 Service plug-ins to interact with Extreme Fabric Automation (EFA). The Neutron drivers and plug-ins communicate with EFA over the REST interface.
The EFA plug-in for OpenStack is packaged as deb files for Ubuntu Linux.
The EFA OpenStack plug-in package supports the following features:
System requirements for EFA OpenStack Integration are as follows:
| Node | |
|---|---|
| CPU cores | 4 |
| Storage | 50 G |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| OpenStack | Pike |
| EFA | 2.1.0 |
| Operating System | Ubuntu 16.04 |
| Python | 2.7 |