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Last week we started a new blog post series on SmartOS. Today we continue in this series and explore in details the virtualisation aspects of SmartOS. SmartOS offers two types of OS virtualisation: the Solaris-inherited container-based virtualisation, i.e. zones, and the hosted virtualisation ported to SmartOS by Joyent, KVM. Containers are a combination of resource […]
If you are also interested in SDN architecture and want to use the OpenFlow specification for it, a good starting point is the tutorial on openflow.org. OpenFlow has its roots at Stanford University and provides the communication between the data- and the control-plane in a SDN based network architecture. In this article we will show you how to setup a system that implements a learning switch using the OpenFlow specification.
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an architecture for computer networking. The overall key concept for SDN-based architecture is to define a control plane and a data plane. The control plane is represented as a server or appliance that takes the accountability for the communication between the business applications and the data plane.