EFA Ecosystem Integration

Administrators can use EFA to integrate with several orchestration ecosystems.

EFA provides one-touch integration points with these ecosystems, providing deep insight into VMs, vSwitches, port groups, and hosts, and the translation of these into IP Fabric networking constructs.

VMware vCenter

Registration of 1 or more vCenter servers in EFA
Updates for vCenter asset details
Lists of information about vCenter servers
Delete or unregister vCenter servers
Inventory integration
Tenant Service integration Dynamic updates from vCenter and from EFA services

Microsoft Hyper-V

SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager) server discovery
SCVMM server update
Periodic polling of registered SCVMM servers
SCVMM server list
SCVMM server delete and deregister
Network event handling

OpenStack

The OpenStack plugin package for ML2 and ML3 includes the following.


ML2 Plugin	CRUD operations on Network and Port LAG Support Provider Network (default, PT)
Trunking (VLAN)	Trunking using virtio ports
SRIOV-VF	Network Operations using SRIOV-VF Passthrough – Intel, Mellanox
SRIOV-PF	Network Operations using SRIOV-VF Passthrough – Intel, Mellanox
Layer 3 (E-W)	East West Traffic using virtio ports (Neutron Router, Router Interface, Subnet CRUD operations)
VMotion	Virtual Machine Migration
BD Support	Support for BD-enabled in Tenant Service
Multi VIM Support	Multiple Tenants managed from OSS
Multi-Segment Support	Multiple segments using SRIOV (PF/VF)+ Virtio (DHCP)
CEP Support	Support for single-homed connections to the edge port