ViNO: SDN overlay to allow seamless migration across heterogeneous infrastructure

Author

Bemby, Spandan ; Hongbin Lu ; Zadeh, Khashayar Hossein ; Bannazadeh, Hadi ; Leon-Garcia, Alberto

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

fYear

2015

fDate

11-15 May 2015

Firstpage

782

Lastpage

785

Abstract

We propose ViNO (Virtual Network Overlay), an orchestration service that can be used to create arbitrary network topologies with OVS (Open vSwitch) switches and VMs. ViNO connects switches and VMs through an overlay network using VXLAN encapsulation. ViNO provisions VMs by making API calls to the underlying platform. Users specify the desired topology using an expressive Domain Specific Language that allows users to easily express commonly used network topologies while hiding the underlying complexity. An important use case for ViNO is enabling the seamless migration of Linux services across VMs in different regions with very little downtime.

Keywords

Linux; application program interfaces; cloud computing; local area networks; overlay networks; software defined networking; telecommunication network topology; virtual machines; virtualisation; API calls; Linux services; OVS switches; Open vSwitch switches; SDN overlay; VMs; VXLAN encapsulation; ViNO; arbitrary network topologies; domain specific language; heterogeneous infrastructure; orchestration service; virtual network overlay; Containers; IP networks; Linux; Network topology; Overlay networks; Topology; Virtualization; Cloud computing; Orchestration; SDN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Network Management (IM), 2015 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INM.2015.7140375

Filename

7140375