[ovs-discuss] OVN vs Distributed vSwitches

[Shravan S K]

The example that you mentioned, isn't it the same as what VXLAN can do ?

And can you please compare the OVN Controller to an SDN controller(say
Floodlight) ?

On 13-Dec-2016 20:59, "Scott Lowe" <scott.lowe at scottlowe.org> wrote:

Please see my response below.


> On Dec 13, 2016, at 4:08 AM, Shravan S K <sra9449 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How is OVN related to distributed virtual switches like the VMware
vNetwork distributed switch or the Cisco Nexus 1000V ?


OVN is intended to add network virtualization functionality to OVS. With
network virtualization via OVN, you can build logical network topologies
that are independent of the underlying physical network topology. Thus, you
could create a logical switch (a logical L2 domain) that spans multiple L3
segments in the physical network (as an example). Distributed virtual
switches such as the vSphere Distributed Switch or the Cisco Nexus 1000V do
not have this functionality.

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Scott
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