This is a contributed blog from LF Networking Member CodiLime. Originally published here. SDN or Software-Defined Networking is an approach to networking that enables the programmatic and dynamic control of…
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Virtualization and Cloud Computing are accelerating the movement of System monitoring from manual, to reactive to proactive. Knowing when a host or service is down is certainly important, but the…
OpenContrail networking provides network virtualization to data center applications using a layered, horizontally scalable software system. We have the abstractions in place to present the operational state of this system…
Contrail Analytics collects information from the various components of the system, and provides the visibility into flows, logs and UVEs that is needed to operate this system. This information is…
For an overview of this blogpost, check the below video. Also you can find similar videos in the Video section of this site. [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”B8aHoY–1Zs” width=”720″ height=”540″ auto_thumb=”1″] Openstack networking…
Overview OpenContrail analytics platform provides a rich interface to query analytics data stored. Before we venture into actual API details, let us look at over all architecture of analytics query…
A wealth of operational data is available in a distributed, multi-tier cloud infrastructure deployment. From the activity of VMs, to the flow of networking traffic, to the performance metrics of…
Every element of the layered, horizontally scalable OpenContrail system has operational state to report. It’s important to present this operation state to the user with the right abstractions that make…
In a previous blog posting titled “Debugging and System Visibility in a SDN Environment”, OpenContrail Software Engineer and my colleague, Anish Mehta, gave an overview of the challenges and opportunities…
The benefits of SDN, and the advantages of cloud computing have been well documented. However, when moving to this new distributed environment, there better be a way to have clear…
