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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

OpenVSwitch - salah satu implementasi OpenFlow



Salah satu implementasi OpenFlow, adalah OpenVSwitch.


Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. It is designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, SPAN, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag). In addition, it is designed to support distribution across multiple physical servers similar to VMware's vNetwork distributed vswitch or Cisco's Nexus 1000V. 


Features

Open vSwitch supports the following features:
  • Visibility into inter-VM communication via NetFlow, sFlow(R), IPFIX, SPAN, RSPAN, and GRE-tunneled mirrors
  • LACP (IEEE 802.1AX-2008)
  • Standard 802.1Q VLAN model with trunking
  • A subset of 802.1ag CCM link monitoring
  • STP (IEEE 802.1D-1998)
  • Fine-grained QoS control
  • Support for HFSC qdisc
  • Per VM interface traffic policing
  • NIC bonding with source-MAC load balancing, active backup, and L4 hashing
  • OpenFlow protocol support (including many extensions for virtualization)
  • IPv6 support
  • Multiple tunneling protocols (Ethernet over GRE, CAPWAP, IPsec, GRE over IPsec)
  • Remote configuration protocol with local python bindings
  • Compatibility layer for the Linux bridging code
  • Kernel and user-space forwarding engine options
  • Multi-table forwarding pipeline with flow-caching engine
  • Forwarding layer abstraction to ease porting to new software and hardware platforms

Open vSwitch can operate both as a soft switch running within the hypervisor, and as the control stack for switching silicon. It has been ported to multiple virtualization platforms and switching chipsets. It is the default switch in XenServer 6.0, the Xen Cloud Platform and also supports Xen,KVMProxmox VE and VirtualBox. It has also been integrated into many virtual management systems includingOpenStackopenQRMOpenNebulaand oVirt. The kernel datapath is distributed with Linux, and packages are available for UbuntuDebian, andFedora. The Open vSwitch release in development also supports FreeBSD.

The bulk of the code is written in platform-independent C and is easily ported to other environments.