Turning an open source project into a carrier grade vswitch for NFV: Vosyswitch challenges & results

2016 IEEE International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (IC-NIDC) Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI:10.1109/ICNIDC.2016.7974529

Michele Paolino, J. Fanguede, Nikolay Nikolaev, D. Raho

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NFV is more and more leveraging open source as a suitable direction to mitigate traditional vendor lock-in effects. The operators interest and strong involvement in open source communities like OPNFV, OpenStack, OVS and DPDK are in fact continuously growing. However, real deployments are still lacking open source solutions. In this paper, the challenges that NFV open source projects are facing to be deployed in operator production environments are identified. Furthermore, the Virtual Open Systems experience in building VOSYSwitch, a user space virtual switch product based on an open source networking framework (Snabb) is presented together with a set of benchmarks which showcase its carrier grade performance level. In fact, the performance results show that VOSYSwitch outperforms OVS-DPDK, a virtual switch solution used in many real deployment environments, which is also the basis of other virtual switch solutions, such as CuckooSwitch, Ensemble Connector, and VPP (DPDK).

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将开源项目转变为NFV的运营商级虚拟交换机:Vosyswitch的挑战和结果

NFV越来越多地利用开源作为缓解传统供应商锁定效应的合适方向。事实上，运营商对OPNFV、OpenStack、OVS和DPDK等开源社区的兴趣和参与正在持续增长。然而，实际部署仍然缺乏开源解决方案。本文指出了NFV开源项目在运营商生产环境中部署所面临的挑战。此外，还介绍了虚拟开放系统在构建VOSYSwitch方面的经验，VOSYSwitch是一种基于开源网络框架(Snabb)的用户空间虚拟交换机产品，并提供了一组展示其运营商级性能水平的基准测试。实际上，性能结果表明，VOSYSwitch优于OVS-DPDK, OVS-DPDK是许多实际部署环境中使用的虚拟交换机解决方案，也是其他虚拟交换机解决方案(如CuckooSwitch, Ensemble Connector和VPP (DPDK))的基础。

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