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OpenFlow, OpenvSwitch and KVM SDN Lab Installation App

Bunker Lab

This OpenFlow, Open vSwitch and KVM SDN Lab Installation App is a python app that will install a few different options at an SDN lab. There are some really nice SDN applications that are coming along that have been open sourced from vendors or the community. Lots of people are really getting interested in understanding what SDN and getting to know …

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Nested KVM Hypervisor Support

Nested KVM Tutorial

Adding Hardware Virtualization Support to a VM in KVM with Nested Hypervisor support is pretty important for folks wanting to do proofs for VMs, IaaS, OpenStack etc. It is fairly well supported now under both KVM and Xen. Not to mention, who wants to lab up bare metal when they can use their laptop for modeling. The major driver for …

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Getting Started OpenFlow OpenvSwitch Tutorial Lab : Setup

Open Vswitch Lab

I wrote a Python OpenFlow installation app to automate an OpenFlow KVM and Open vSwitch setup found at: Getting Started OpenFlow OpenvSwitch Tutorial Lab : This is an OpenFlow Tutorial using OpenvSwitch and Floodlight controller but any other controller or switch can be used. I have had some requests on some scenarios so I put this together. Adding a few …

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OpenVswitch and GRE tunnel notes

Open Vswitch Lab

Here is a quick post for setting up GRE tunnels on OpenVswitch. Both Vswitch boxes are attached to an OpenFlow Beacon controller. More up to date how-to can be found here: Configuring VXLan and GRE tunnels on OpenvSwitch KVM live storage migration makes an interesting story and run at VMware tools. The dreaded layer2 data center link conversation may never …

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Installing Open vSwitch with KVM

This tutorial is for installing Open vSwitch with KVM in order to replace traditional hypervisor Ethernet switching using Linux bridging with Open vSwitch. I rebuilt this box becuase as fun as it was to setup OpenStack (I think) there are a million modules that would take more time to clip out rather than just rebuilding. Anyone gotten Nova integrated into …

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OpenStack on Ubuntu 11.10 Installation

My notes from an OpenStack & Ubuntu 11.10. These are only my notes. Lots of errors. It was a fairly painless install. I didnt have the lab gear setup with two Nics so I got a bit kludgy at the end. I think the interesting component will be to replace the Openstack bridging with OpenVswitch. sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server sudo …

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Installing Openvswitch and KVM on CentOS 6.2

Open Vswitch Lab

This is all (mostly) covered in the INSTALL.Linux inside the tar. This might help folks with some of the graph

add yum -y install openssl-devel this package is necessary if you use SSL with OpenVSWitch. (Thanks for input Marcos)

The Open vSwitch datapath requires bridging support (CONFIG_BRIDGE) to be built as a kernel module.  (This is common in …

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