Re: [armd] Multi-Tenancy without changes

[Linda Dunbar <linda.dunbar at huawei.com>]

Vishwas,

 

Are you assuming that each group of tenants are connected to Gateway router via completely different physical ports? If yes, then you are absolutely correct.

 

Linda

 

From: armd-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:armd-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Vishwas Manral
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:10 AM
To: armd at ietf.org
Subject: [armd] Multi-Tenancy without changes

 

Hi,

 

I was thinking of multi-tenancy and the way to achieve > 4094 without any changes in any layer by just using VLAN's. This is achieved as we already have a mapping layer already in place.

 

So assume there are 8000 tenants. We can divide them in groups of 4000 each and assign each tenant a particular id from say 2 to 4001. Now as long as we make sure we do not have tenants from 2 different groups on the same machine, there are just no issues. Only the mapping layer needs to be aware of the group a machine belongs to. There is thus no change in dataplane.

 

Any comments?

 

Thanks,

Vishwas