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Provisioning Using Opendaylight OVSDB into Openstack: Experiments

Authors:
Alexandru Eftimie
Eugen Borcoci

Keywords: Openstack; Network Function Virtualization; Software Defined Network; OpenFlow;

Abstract:
Abstract – Network function virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are complementary technologies that support flexible development or virtual machines in various environments, e.g., multi-tenant / multi- domain. While SDN separates the architectural control plane, versus data plane, NFV implements a lot of functions (that traditionally have been performed by dedicated boxes), by software – using virtualized network functions (VNF). There are still open research issues in both SDN and NFV, especially related to their cooperation and integration. This paper presents an experiment of deploying networks and virtual machines (VMs) using Openstack and Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol (OVSDB) from Opendaylight project. The study is oriented towards implementation aspects. Its main objective is to deploy an Openstack controller, an Opendaylight controller and two compute nodes and to create on top of existing infrastructure several networks and illustrate how this is automatically achieved and how overlay networks can coexist. The paper describes step by step how to configure controllers, how connectivity is achieved and how OpenFlow is used to forward packets.

Pages: 30 to 36

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: February 23, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-770-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 23, 2020 to February 27, 2020