Title :
SWIM: A Switch Manager for Datacenter Networks
Author :
Chao-Chih Chen ; Peng Sun ; Lihua Yuan ; Maltz, David A. ; Chen-Nee Chuah ; Mohapatra, Prasant
Abstract :
Datacenter networks are rapidly increasing the number of servers they support, making equipment management highly complex. Network attributes are scattered among network engineering groups, making troubleshooting cumbersome. Meanwhile, network vendor diversity leads to an explosion of vendor-specific management systems or single-use automation scripts, limiting network scalability and increasing management time and effort. Switch Manager (SWIM) copes with this growth by standardizing the language for describing network attributes and unifying the interface for executing management actions on the network equipment.
Keywords :
computer centres; SWIM; datacenter networks; equipment management; management actions; network attributes; network engineering groups; network equipment; network scalability; network vendor diversity; single-use automation scripts; switch manager; vendor-specific management systems; Engines; Grammar; IP networks; Peer-to-peer computing; Switches; Syntactics; XML; DCN; Internet computing; datacenter network; network management; switch/router configuration;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2014.41
