State of the State for Open vSwitch

This week, VMware will be hosting the Open vSwitch 2014 Fall Conference, with more than 200 attendees and nearly two dozen talks on a variety of subjects from a key participants. The full schedule is available here, and we’ll be doing a wrap up of some of the takeaways from the conference a bit later. […]]> This week, VMware will be hosting the Open vSwitch 2014 Fall Conference, with more than 200 attendees and nearly two dozen talks on a variety of subjects from a key participants. The full schedule is available here, and we’ll be doing a wrap up of some of the takeaways from the conference a bit later.

For the uninitiated,Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open sourceApache 2.0license. It is designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, RSPAN,CLI, LACP, 802.1ag). In addition, it is designed to support distribution across multiple physical servers similar to VMware’s vDS or Cisco’s Nexus 1000V. See full feature listhere

For more information on OVS, I encourage you to check out the OVS website.

In the mean time, take a read about latest Open vSwitch developments in this post on Network Heresyby OVS core contributors Justin Pettit, Ben Pfaff, and Ethan Jackson.

Accelerating Open vSwitch to �LudicrousSpeed�

Roger

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