Configuring Open vSwitch/Neutron Agent to Use Existing Provider VLANs

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We have recently stood up an OpenStack (Ocata) controller and a Hyper-V compute node with Cloudbase Nova agent installed as well as Open vSwitch 2.6.1 neutron agent (installed via the Cloudbase Open vSwitch installer).

Prior to standing up OpenStack in the past few weeks, we have had quite a number of customers hosted and managed manually on our network each with their own dedicated VLAN on our network. I am attempting to create provider networks for each customer where each network is configured to use each customers' existing, corresponding VLAN. For example:

• Customer A is on VLAN 150
• Customer B is on VLAN 200
• Customer C is on VLAN 250
• etc.

We want to create tenants in OpenStack for each customer, and then create a network for each customer's VLAN and assign it to the corresponding customer and allow customers to launch their own VMs on their dedicated VLANs on our network (with IPs from their subnet pool assigned to the VM automatically).

We have only configured ONE interface that we want to use with Open vSwitch on which OpenStack should be adding VMs. However, for some reason when OpenStack spins up a VM, we look at the Hyper-V settings for the VM and the network adapter is assigned to the wrong Hyper-V VMSwitch and the VLAN is not enabled or assigned.

Per the info below, the bridge br-back_end was created in OVS on the compute node. Port "Ethernet 2 Farm Nic" was added to the bridge. This is the physical interface where Customer A needs to be able to communicate on VLAN 150. Back-end zone is the virtual switch in Hyper-V that uses "Ethernet 2 Farm Nic".

We launched a VM for Customer A (which should be on VLAN 150). Per the info included below, when OpenStack launched the VM, interface/port "8e0a75d9-14a3-48d2-8526-cfdee2dc3cd8" was created automatically on the br-int OVS bridge. However, when looking at the settings for the instance in Hyper-V, it shows the instance is using "8e0a75d9-14a3-48d2-8526-cfdee2dc3cd8" on the Web zone VMSwitch. VLAN is not enabled in the adapter settings for the instance in Hyper-V and the VM (with DHCP turned on) is not picking up an IP address. Screenshot of the Hyper-V adapter settings for the instance.

Does anyone know why the Web zone VMSwitch is being assigned to the instance in Hyper-V and VLAN is not enabled for the adapter (with no VLAN assigned)? Per below, we need to be on VLAN 150 on the Ethernet 2 Farm Nic physical interface. The Back-end zone VMswitch uses the Ethernet 2 Farm Nic physical interface. The Web zone VMswitch uses some other physical interface that we do not want this VM to use. So, I'm not sure why the adapter for the instance is being attached to the Web zone VMswitch...

Does anyone have any ideas? Any thoughts or guidance would be GREATLY appreciated.

Here is our ovs-vsctl show output from the Hyper-V compute node:

PS C:\Windows\system32> ovs-vsctl show
c1a78073-23dd-4cfc-b743-063d9a654440
Bridge ...