6wind-virtual-accelerator-plugin: support for Mellanox NICs

This commit enables support for 6WIND Virtual Accelerator addon for
Mellanox NICs support.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Santoro <francesco.santoro@6wind.com>

Change-Id: I57d9c3ac29fffda0d77058dd637df03a15ec5ada

deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/virtual_accelerator/manifests/init.pp

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class virtual_accelerator {
   $disable_ipset = $settings['disable_ipset']
   $enable_host_cpu = $settings['enable_host_cpu']
   $va_version = $settings['va_version']
+  $mellanox_support = $settings['mellanox_support']
 
   if $settings['va_conf_file'] {
     $va_conf_file = $settings['va_conf_file'][content]

deployment_scripts/puppet/modules/virtual_accelerator/manifests/install.pp

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 class virtual_accelerator::install inherits virtual_accelerator {
 
+  $mellanox_support = $virtual_accelerator::mellanox_support
+
   exec { 'update_repos':
       command => '/usr/bin/apt-get -y update',
   } ->
@@ -11,6 +13,13 @@ class virtual_accelerator::install inherits virtual_accelerator {
     install_options => ['--allow-unauthenticated'],
   }
 
+  if $mellanox_support == true {
+    package { 'virtual-accelerator-addon-mellanox':
+      ensure          => 'installed',
+      install_options => ['--allow-unauthenticated'],
+    }
+  }
+
   file { '/usr/local/bin/config_va.sh':
     owner   => 'root',
     group   => 'root',

doc/source/installation.rst

@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ Configuring 6WIND Virtual Accelerator Plugin
         version, otherwise specify an explicit value (eg. 1.3).
         Remember to use **at least version 1.3** for Fuel 8.
 
-    *   Refer to next chapter for the description of Advanced Paramaters fields.
+    *   Refer to next chapter for the description of Advanced Paramaters fields
+        and how to enable support for Mellanox NICs.
 
 
 #.  Add nodes and assign them the following roles:

doc/source/user-guide.rst

@@ -15,6 +15,16 @@ credentials for Virtual Accelerator software download.
 The plugin will then install and run the Virtual Accelerator using its default
 configuration values.
 
+Enable 6WIND Virtual Accelerator addon for Mellanox
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+If your compute nodes use Mellanox NICs you should install the additional 6WIND
+Virtual Accelerator module. This task is possible using the
+**Enable Mellanox NICs support** checkbox in the Web UI.
+
+Thanks to this addon, the Virtual Accelerator will be able to automatically
+detect and configure these NICs to support the 6WIND network stack.
+
 Configuring 6WIND Virtual Accelerator parameters
 ------------------------------------------------
 

environment_config.yaml

@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ attributes:
     weight: 35
     type: "checkbox"
 
+  mellanox_support:
+    value: false
+    label: "Enable Mellanox NICs support"
+    description: "Installs 6WIND Virtual Accelerator addon to support Mellanox NICs"
+    weight: 36
+    type: "checkbox"
+
   fp_mem:
     value: 'auto'
     label: 'FP_MEMORY'