Open vSwitch, a new virtual switch that was purpose-built for use in virtualized environments. Open vSwitch differs from traditional approaches in that it exports an external interface for finegrained control of configuration state and forwarding behavior. We present how Open vSwitch run on Linux-based virtualization platform, KVM. We then present the result of several experiments performed in different network topologies, using throughput, packet size and number of VMs as the metrics for comparison.
Open vSwitch是一個新的虛擬交換器技術,其目的是專為了虛擬機器環境所開發的軟體。在此篇論文中,我們將一步步的講解如何安裝KVM與Open vSwitch在Ubuntu的環境下,並結合KVM與Open vSwitch形成虛擬網路。另外使用實體的Router來幫助虛擬網路的建構與管理。最後實際測量此虛擬網路中的吞吐量與延遲時間,並利用虛擬機器和智慧型手機簡單地實現雲端運算的概念。