2011-08-22 13:23:47 +02:00
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Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed
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under the open source Apache 2.0 license. It is designed to enable
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massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still
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supporting standard management interfaces (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, RSPAN,
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ERSPAN, CLI). In addition, it is designed to support distribution
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across multiple physical servers similar to VMware.s vNetwork distributed
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vswitch or Cisco.s Nexus 1000V.
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Open vSwitch can operate both as a soft switch running within the
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hypervisor, and as the control stack for switching silicon. It has been
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ported to multiple virtualization platforms and switching chipsets. It
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is the default switch in the Xen Cloud Platform and also supports Xen,
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XenServer, KVM, and VirtualBox. The bulk of the code is written in
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platform-independent C and is easily ported to other environments.
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2011-09-06 03:49:17 +02:00
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This package will build kernel modules that will be used as replacements
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2011-08-22 13:23:47 +02:00
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for the bridge modules included with the stock Linux kernel. Open
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2011-09-06 03:49:17 +02:00
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vSwitch also includes a kernel module for backwards compatibility if you wish
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to use the standard Linux bridge utils to manage it.
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