[Special and huge thanks to Scott Lowe for answering an endless amount of questions I had while writing this post and testing with NSX/OVS over the last few days. Thanks to Deepesh as well who I bounced OVS questions off of when I needed to give Scott a break. ]
In Open vSwitch 101, I described the three main components that make up Open vSwitch (OVS) from an architectural standpoint, namely ovs-vswitchd, ovsdb-server, and the fast path kernel module. If you start to work with OVS, the first thing you realize is that it takes quite a bit more knowledge to really understand it. This post will focus on some design principles and options when running OVS on a hypervisor like KVM in conjunction with a network virtualization solution.
In Open vSwitch 101, I described the three main components that make up Open vSwitch (OVS) from an architectural standpoint, namely ovs-vswitchd, ovsdb-server, and the fast path kernel module. If you start to work with OVS, the first thing you realize is that it takes quite a bit more knowledge to really understand it. This post will focus on some design principles and options when running OVS on a hypervisor like KVM in conjunction with a network virtualization solution.
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