Install Openvswitch 2.5 LTS pada centos 7

Openvswitch atau ovs adalah suatu software multilayer virtual switch dibawah lisensi apache 2.0 yang mendukung standar management interface dan protocol seperti Netflow, Sflow, IPFIX, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag . selain itu dia juga dirancang untuk mendukung distribusi server fisik seperti cisco nexus 1000V.

Install repo epel-release

yum -y install epel-release

kemudian Install package dependencynya

yum -y install wget openssl-devel gcc make python-devel openssl-devel kernel-devel graphviz kernel-debug-devel autoconf automake rpm-build redhat-rpm-config libtool python-twisted-core python-zope-interface PyQt4 desktop-file-utils libcap-ng-devel groff checkpolicy selinux-policy-devel

setelah selesai install packagenya, maka selanjutnya buat user khusus unutk ovs

adduser ovs

su - ovs

kemudian download source code untuk memulai installasi openvswitch

mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES

wget http://openvswitch.org/releases/openvswitch-2.5.0.tar.gz

cp openvswitch-2.5.0.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/

tar xfz openvswitch-2.5.0.tar.gz

kemudian build RPM package dan exit

rpmbuild -bb --nocheck openvswitch-2.5.0/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec

exit

setelah itu kembali ke root dan install RPM packagenya

yum localinstall /home/ovs/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/openvswitch-2.5.0-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm -y

okee, proses installasi sudah selesai, setelah itu aktifkan openvswitchnya

systemctl enable openvswitch && systemctl start openvswitch

kemudian liat status ovs

[root@odl ~]# systemctl status openvswitch
● openvswitch.service - Open vSwitch
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openvswitch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Min 2017-01-15 06:39:27 EST; 1h 30min ago
 Main PID: 1042 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/openvswitch.service

Jan 15 06:39:27 odl systemd[1]: Starting Open vSwitch...
Jan 15 06:39:27 odl systemd[1]: Started Open vSwitch.

kemudian lihat versi openvswitchnya

[root@odl ~]# ovs-vsctl -V
ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 2.5.0
Compiled Jan 15 2017 06:25:43
DB Schema 7.12.1

Jika saat menjalankan perintah ovs-vsctl terjadi error maka pastikan bahwa openvswtich anda sudah di start

sekian dulu tutorialnya semoga bermanfaat.

wasalam….

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