VMware: Port Group and Port ID not explicit from port binding

[Thomas Bachman]

Various Neutron core plugins and/or ML2 mechanism drivers that support VMware vCenter as a Nova compute backend have different ways to map Neutron resources to vCenter constructs. The vCenter VIF driver code in Nova currently assumes a particular mapping. The Neutron plugin or driver should be able to use the port's binding:vif_details attribute to explicitly specify the vCenter port key and port group to be used for the VIF.

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

This sounds like a feature enhancement rather than a bug, so marking this as wishlist.

[Matt Riedemann (mriedem)]

Honestly you probably need to file a blueprint for this in the newton release:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Blueprints

[Tracy Jones (tjones-i)]

Giri - can you take a look? This may not be the scope of a bug but may need a BP

[Thomas Bachman (tbachman)]

I'll submit a patch, in order to give folks an idea of the extent of the change -- might help determine whether or not it merits a blueprint.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/288076

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/288076
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/?id=e964b4778cfe6a1864718bdad4ab037ddf976766
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit e964b4778cfe6a1864718bdad4ab037ddf976766
Author: Thomas Bachman <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 3 10:32:09 2016 -0500

    VMware: Use Port Group and Key in binding details

    This uses the port group and port key information passed
    via the binding:vif_details attribute, if available. This
    allows these parameters to be passed explicitly.

    Change-Id: I41949e8134c2ca860e7b7ad3a2679b9f2884a99a
    Closes-Bug: #1552786

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: stable/mitaka
Review: https://review.openstack.org/304738

[Davanum Srinivas (DIMS) (dims-v)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/nova 14.0.0.0b1 development milestone.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/304738
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova/commit/?id=ac04b087d84496e8f7d164883bb0c9ecb7296fc4
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: stable/mitaka

commit ac04b087d84496e8f7d164883bb0c9ecb7296fc4
Author: Thomas Bachman <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 3 10:32:09 2016 -0500

    VMware: Use Port Group and Key in binding details

    This uses the port group and port key information passed
    via the binding:vif_details attribute, if available. This
    allows these parameters to be passed explicitly.

    Change-Id: I41949e8134c2ca860e7b7ad3a2679b9f2884a99a
    Closes-Bug: #1552786
    (cherry picked from commit e964b4778cfe6a1864718bdad4ab037ddf976766)

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/nova 13.1.2 release.