Integrating Contrail Plug-in

NSX Advanced Load Balancer integrates with Neutron SDN plug-ins to provide VIP placement and floating IP (FIP) association to VIP.

Contrail SDN using NSX Advanced Load Balancer UI

During cloud configuration, select the Integration with Contrail check box and provide the endpoint URL of Contrail VNC API-server. The Keystone credentials from the OpenStack configuration will be used to authenticate with the API-server service.

Note:

Contrail-Interface-IP is handled gracefully by NSX Advanced Load Balancer. Creating and editing the cloud must be left intact while integrating Contrail SDN under Network Settings.

If you are creating a new cloud, the wizard looks as follows:

If you are editing an existing cloud, the cloud editor looks as follows:

Contrail SDN using NSX Advanced Load Balancer CLI

The following is the CLI command for contrail SDN:

: > configure cloud oscontrail
: cloud> vtype cloud_openstack
: cloud> openstack_configuration
: cloud:openstack_configuration>
: cloud:openstack_configuration> privilege write_access
: cloud:openstack_configuration> username admin
: cloud:openstack_configuration> password xxxyyyzzz
: cloud:openstack_configuration> admin_tenant admin
: cloud:openstack_configuration> mgmt_network_name avi-mgmt
: cloud:openstack_configuration> region RegionOne
: cloud:openstack_configuration> use_keystone_auth
: cloud:openstack_configuration> import_keystone_tenants
: cloud:openstack_configuration> no use_admin_url
: cloud:openstack_configuration> auth_url http://172.16.11.50:5000/v2.0
: cloud:openstack_configuration> no neutron_rbac
: cloud:openstack_configuration> contrail_endpoint http://10.10.10.100:8082
: cloud:openstack_configuration> role_mapping os_role * avi_role Tenant-Admin
New object being created
: cloud:openstack_configuration:role_mapping> save
: cloud:openstack_configuration> save
: cloud> save