Results for: The Open vSwitch - Key Ingredient of Enterprise Ready Clouds
The Rise of the Software Defined Network
Today key players in the industry took a major step toward embracing an open cloud architecture. The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has been established with the backing of many of the Great and Good in cloud computing: Broadcom, Brocade, Ciena, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Facebook, Force10, Google, HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, Marvell, Microsoft, NEC, Netgear, NTT, Riverbed Technology, Verizon, VMware, and Yahoo! ...
Applications may be cloudy, but Citrix still delivers
In my last post, I laid out the case for and against various approaches to cloud-hosted applications. These topics were all discussed at a recent industry conference on cloud application platforms. Software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) were all deemed to have associated benefits and drawbacks. The question posed to me several times at the conference was this: why ...
The Open vSwitch and Cloud – Visibility, SLAs and Compliance
Peter Phaal (yet another S. African contributor to virtualization) at InMon sent me a DM followup to my recent post on the strategic importance of the Open vSwitch project, and its inclusion in the forthcoming XenServer "Cowley" release. He makes a great point about the project's value in providing granular metrics on performance, from the host VIF, through the vSwitch, the physical NIC, ...
Performance with a Little Help from our Friends
There is an interesting change afoot in virtualized networking. Both VMware and XenServer are boasting richer network stacks, with the goal of simplifying the management of policies (firewalling, QoS etc) for each virtual interface in a dynamic virtualized world. In our case, the new Open vSwitch has been in beta for a while and will ship in our next release, Cowley. Changing ...
The Open vSwitch – Key Ingredient of Enterprise Ready Clouds
I'm often asked what Citrix and the open source community are trying to achieve with the Open vSwitch Project. The Open vSwitch is an open source virtual switch for Xen (and therefore XenServer, and in future perhaps Amazon EC2 and RackSpace), and KVM based virtual infrastructure that replaces the Linux bridge code with a powerful, programmable switch forwarding capability as well as programmable ...