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

Microsoft Hyper-V

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