Nowadays, Data Centers are the primary infrastructures for Cloud Computing services provisioning. In this challenging scenario, Data Centers have to deal with highly dynamic workloads, thus not only should they adopt advanced software virtualization solutions, but also network control capabilities. Elastic, agile network connectivity control should be integrated with the computing management infrastructure to make it achieve its goals. This paper presents an OF-based controller, called OFVN, that enables novel virtualization-aware networking functions in Cloud DCs. Virtual Machines allocations are performed considering the availability of computational resources on physical server, but also selecting a forwarding path for VMs data flows based on network links utilization. The focus of the paper is on the implementation and assessment of the controller in an experimental testbed. The behaviour of different allocation strategies is also investigated.

An OpenFlow Controller for Cloud Data Centers: Experimental Setup and Validation

A. Sgambelluri;GHARBAOUI, Molka;CASTOLDI, Piero;
2014-01-01

Abstract

Nowadays, Data Centers are the primary infrastructures for Cloud Computing services provisioning. In this challenging scenario, Data Centers have to deal with highly dynamic workloads, thus not only should they adopt advanced software virtualization solutions, but also network control capabilities. Elastic, agile network connectivity control should be integrated with the computing management infrastructure to make it achieve its goals. This paper presents an OF-based controller, called OFVN, that enables novel virtualization-aware networking functions in Cloud DCs. Virtual Machines allocations are performed considering the availability of computational resources on physical server, but also selecting a forwarding path for VMs data flows based on network links utilization. The focus of the paper is on the implementation and assessment of the controller in an experimental testbed. The behaviour of different allocation strategies is also investigated.
2014
978-147992003-7
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Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/11382/469175
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