The developers of open source virtual networking technology Open vSwitch (OVS) said this week they will move future development to the Linux Foundation Project. The move releases Open vSwitch, which ...

How important is software-defined networking? To the Linux Foundation, it’s as important as protecting core networking protocols, devising open container standards, supporting development of the R ...

As core network virtualization technologies go, it’s hard to imagine one that is more strategic than Open vSwitch (OVS). OVS is now the network foundation for most VMware environments and deployments ...

Developers of Open vSwitch, the open source networking component for hypervisors, are adding network virtualization capabilities to the code. According to this post in Network Heresy, the developers ...

The people who brought you Open vSwitch (OVS) are taking a shot at putting network abstractions on top of those virtual switches. The result would be the ability to connect groups of virtual machines ...

Proxmox has released version 3.2 of its Proxmox Virtual Environment open-source server virtualization platform. Key new features/enhancements include the ability to choose between Simple Protocol for ...

When we talk about server virtualization, we often mention the resources behind the technology, such as the memory, CPU, and disk. We do so because at least one of these resources will ultimately ...

A customer of mine recently switched from VMware Server to KVM, but they wanted better networking, which required installing and operating the Open vSwitch. Since ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pica8 Inc., the leader in open networking for software defined networks (SDN), announced today that its open, hardware-independent switches are now compatible with ...

In last week’s post, we discussed how we created our network by integrating Open vSwitch into RHEL KVM. Now we need to create some virtual machines to run the workloads. (VMs are required to run ...

As described on the Apache web site, “Open vSwitch Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. The goal is to build a production quality switch for ...