OpenvSwitch new OVSIntPort without reboot?

[tomstephens89]

Hi guys,

I need to add a few new VLAN's to my infrastructure, one of which will be for backups that each of my 16 proxmox hosts will need to talk on. Therefore I need to add a new OVSIntPort to each host.

I want to know if it is OK to make the new port in the GUI and then run the following command instead of having to reboot all my hosts?

[COLOR=#333333]/etc/init.d/pvenetcommit start[/COLOR]

Thanks

 

[tomstephens89]

Can anyone give me an answer on this? I plan to make the change today, but will have to hold off and test myself anyway on an unused node if I can't get an answer.

 

[Richard]

I need to add a few new VLAN's to my infrastructure, one of which will be for backups that each of my 16 proxmox hosts will need to talk on. Therefore I need to add a new OVSIntPort to each host.

I want to know if it is OK to make the new port in the GUI and then run the following command instead of having to reboot all my hosts?

/etc/init.d/pvenetcommit start

No. The above procedure is dedicated for to be called in the startup phase.

Suggestion: Make temporary changes (until the next reboot, in addition to the change in GUI), using ovs-vsctl command, e.g.

ovs-vsctl add-port vmbr5 iport99 tag=999 -- set interface iport99 type=internal

 

[tomstephens89]

No. The above procedure is dedicated for to be called in the startup phase.

Suggestion: Make temporary changes (until the next reboot, in addition to the change in GUI), using ovs-vsctl command, e.g.

ovs-vsctl add-port vmbr5 iport99 tag=999 -- set interface iport99 type=internal

Ok so a reboot is required for a simple network change. Whilst I can acomodate this, I would suggest this functionality be added in the future since making live changes to the network configuration is possible in the other commercial hypervisors such as ESXi and HyperV.

 

[Richard]

Ok so a reboot is required for a simple network change.

Not really - but it's not as comfortable as it should be....

 

[tomstephens89]

Not really - but it's not as comfortable as it should be....

Is there somewhere we can submit it as a feature request? I think this would really bring it closer to being a drop in replacement for other hypervisors.

 

[Richard]

Is there somewhere we can submit it as a feature request? I think this would really bring it closer to being a drop in replacement for other hypervisors.

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