What Is Open vSwitch?
How many times have you been trapped in a traffic jam, only to realize that the road you're on is actually one of those evil experiments where the cars are all driving in circles? Well, Open vSwitch is not one of those roads. This open-source virtual switch software is designed for virtual servers, and it's specifically designed to forward traffic between different virtual machines (VM) within the same host and traffic between a VM and a physical network. It supports standard management interfaces like NetFlow, sFlow, CLI and RSPAN. Its support for program extensions makes it easy to use with OpenFlow, which is great if you're looking for new ways to get out of your office and into nature! Its support for OVSDB management protocol allows you to control it from anywhere you can find WiFi access. Open vSwitch is designed to be well matched with current switching chipsets so that it can be ported to high-fanout switches, consequently presenting the identical flexibility of managing bodily infrastructure as digital ones. Open vSwitch is a digital transfer for Linux that runs on KVM and Xen. Open vSwitch is a virtual switch for Linux that runs on KVM and Xen. It supports various features, including 802.1Q VLANs, QinQ, Routing and L2/L3 interfaces. It's not just for Linux, and it can run on any platform with a kernel version 2.6.18 or later. It's available for VirtualBox, KVM, Xen and XenServer, and the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP). In addition to being written in C, Open vSwitch is designed to be portable to any environment. As of Linux 3.3, it has been included in the mainline kernel. Open vSwitch is a multi-layer virtual switch that can manage networks at all levels, from physical ports on the host machine to virtual machines running on top of a hypervisor. It does this by providing tools for creating bridges and bonds between physical or virtual ports, thus allowing administrators to customize their network configuration as needed.
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