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OVS Orbit

Interviews and topics of interest to Open vSwitch developers and users, published twice a month, hosted and produced by Ben Pfaff.

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00:26:18

Lagopus, with Yoshihiro Nakajima from NTT

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2016/09/10

Lagopus is a high-performance, open source software switch, primarily for DPDK on Linux, developed at NTT in its Network Innovation Laboratories research group. Lagopus features OpenFlow 1.3 conformance, plus extensions to better support NTT's use cases. This episode is a discussion with Yoshihiro Nakajima, one of the switch's developers, about Lagopus, its history, goals, and future. Lagopus supports protocols that are particularly

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00:28:05

Converging Approaches to Software Switches

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2016/08/28

On Aug. 4 and 5, I attended APSys 2016, the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems. This episode is my own “industry talk” from APSys, titled “Converging Approaches in Software Switches: Combining code- and data-driven approaches to achieve a better result.” Slides from the talk are available and may provide a little extra insight, but it is not necessary to view them to follow along with with the talk. This talk introduces the idea that

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00:30:40

Time Capsule, with Jia Rao and Kun Suo from...

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2016/08/20

On Aug. 4 and 5, I attended APSys 2016, the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems. I was impressed with how many of the papers presented there were relevant to Open vSwitch and virtualization in general. This episode is an interview with Jia Rao and Kun (Tony) Suo of the University of Texas at Arlington, to talk about their APSys paper, Time Capsule: Tracing Packet Latency across Different Layers in Virtualized Systems, which received the

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00:11:49

Open vSwitch Joins Linux Foundation

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2016/08/10

On August 9, Open vSwitch joined the Linux Foundation as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, as previously discussed on ovs-discuss. This episode is a recording of a conference call held by the Open vSwitch developers on August 10 to talk about this move, what will change and what will not change as a result, and open up for Q&A. Justin Pettit and Ben Pfaff are the main speakers in the call. You will also hear

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00:40:53

P4 on the Edge, with John Fastabend from Intel

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2016/08/09

Interview with John Fastabend, an engineer at Intel whose work in the Linux kernel has focused on the scheduling core of the networking stack and Intel NIC drivers. John has also been involved in IEEE standardization of 802.1Q and Data Center Bridging (DCB). The interview focuses on John's recent work on P4 for edge devices, which he presented at the P4 Workshop held at Stanford in May. The slides for his talk are available.

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00:38:17

SoftFlow, with Ethan Jackson from Berkeley

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2016/07/20

Interview with Ethan Jackson, a PhD student at Berkeley advised by Scott Shenker. Before Berkeley, Ethan worked on Open vSwitch as an employee at Nicira Networks and then at VMware. His contributions to Open vSwitch have greatly slowed since he moved on to Berkeley, but as of this writing Ethan is still the second most prolific all-time contributor to Open vSwitch measured in terms of commits, with over 800. Ethan talks about his

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00:31:21

Adding P4 to OVS with PISCES, with Muhammad Shahbaz...

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2016/06/25

Interview with Muhammad Shahbaz, a third-year grad student at Princeton advised by Jennifer Rexford and Nick Feamster. Shahbaz talks about his work on PISCES, a version of Open vSwitch modified to add support for P4, a language for programming flexible hardware switches, which will be presented at SIGCOMM in August 2016. Shahbaz is spending this summer as an intern at VMware, where he is working to bring PISCE's features into a form where they

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00:48:43

Mininet, with Bob Lantz and Brian O'Connor from ON.LAB

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2016/06/18

Interview with Bob Lantz and Brian O'Connor of ON.LAB, about Mininet software for simulating networks. Bob previously gave a talk about Mininet (slides, video) at the Open vSwitch 2015 Fall Conference. Bob describes the mission of ON.LAB and how he ended up there. He talks about introducing the idea of a network operating system to ON.LAB. He mentioned that his interest in networks arose from a lecture by Nick

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00:38:28

The OVS Development Process, with Kyle Mestery from IBM

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2016/06/11

Interview with Kyle Mestery, a Distinguished Engineer at IBM who has been involved with Open vSwitch since about 2012, about the Open vSwitch development process. Our conversation was based on Upstream Open Source Networking Development: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, a presentation at ONS 2016 given by Kyle along with Justin Pettit from VMware and Russell Bryant from Red Hat. Kyle also gave a version of the talk with Armando Migliaccio at

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00:41:14

sFlow, with Peter Phaal from InMon

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2016/06/02

Interview with Peter Phaal of InMon, about sFlow monitoring and how it is used with Open vSwitch. In summary, an sFlow agent in a switch (such as Open vSwitch or a hardware switch) selects a specified statistical sample of packets that pass through it, along with information on how the packet was treated (e.g. a FIB entry in a conventional switch or OpenFlow actions in Open vSwitch) and sends them across the network to an sFlow collector. sFlow

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00:37:41

nlog, with Teemu Koponen from Styra and Yusheng Wang...

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2016/05/26

Interview with Teemu Koponen of Styra and Yusheng Wang of VMware, about the nlog language. nlog, in this context, is unrelated to the logging platform for .NET. It is a database language, a simplified form of Datalog that lacks recursion and negation. Teemu designed this language for use in Nicira NVP, the forerunner of VMware NSX-MH. Yusheng is now working to implement nlog in OVN. Teemu and Yusheng begin by

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00:32:32

Cilium, with Thomas Graf from Cisco

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2016/05/21

Interview with Thomas Graf of Cisco, regarding the Cilium project. Cilium is a “science project” that Thomas and others at Cisco and elsewhere are hacking on, to address the question of how to address policy in a legacy-free container environment that scales to millions of endpoints. It's an experiment because the outcome isn't yet certain, and it's a question that hasn't seen much work outside of hyperscale providers.

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00:18:56

OVS in Production, with Chad Norgan from Rackspace

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2016/05/08

Interview with Chad Norgan of Rackspace, about use of Open vSwitch at Rackspace over the years. Topics include: Chad's role at Rackspace and what he spends his time on. Shifts in where he spends his time as Open vSwitch has matured. Experiments with buying and writing SDN controllers and OpenFlow flows at Rackspace, including a Ryu-based chassis controller. SDN in

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00:23:24

OPNFV and OVS, with Dave Neary from Red Hat

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2016/05/04

Interview with Dave Neary of Red Hat, concerning OPNFV and its relationship with Open vSwitch. Topics include: The difference between SFC and NFV. Importance performance constraints in NFV. Telcos and NFV, and how telcos approached OpenStack. How OPNFV bridges the telcos with OpenStack. What telcos care about, and a definition of “carrier grade.” Why carrier-grade features matter to everyone. Downsides and

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00:33:58

Porting OVS to Hyper-V, with Alessandro Pilotti from...

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2016/05/01

An interview with Alessandro Pilotti of Cloudbase, which Alessandrodescribes as the company that takes care of everything related to Microsoft technologies in OpenStack. The interview focuses on the Open vSwitch port to Hyper-V, to which Cloudbase is a top contributor. Highlights and topics in this episode include: An overview of what Cloudbase does and what it works on in OpenStack. Why Cloudbase started their Open vSwitch port to Hyper-V. History of

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