Requirements: OpenContrail with OpenStack What if you have an environment which needs to scale up during periods of peak loads & scale down during normal operations (Eg. Black-Friday). Can you have…
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This is a guest blog by Johnny Chen from AT&T with contributions by Qasim Arham, Henon Huang, Vijay Kamisetty from Juniper Networks. Overview The purpose of this is to lay out a…
When it comes to service functions there is a huge amount of focus on making the shift to virtualization or NFV. Virtual Network Functions (VNF) can be Firewalls, Load Balancers,…
OpenContrail 3.0 brings to the table an impressive series of new features and enhancements. Some of them are especially useful for Service Chaining – and not only for Virtual Network…
OpenContrail supports multiple types of hypervisors and containers. These can spawn simple tenant VMs and also more complex service instances implementing a Virtualized Network Function (NFV). [video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”baUfXmiA5Qs” width=”720″ height=”540″…
The OpenContrail solution uses overlays for network virtualization. An earlier blog evaluated the performance of the OpenContrail virtual router (vrouter) when run as a kernel module on Linux. As described there,…
Note: This is a post taken from tcpcloud blog. Click here for the original post. This week, tcp cloud® launched a new version of TCP Virtual Private Cloud built on OpenContrail as SDN /…
1 Basic Concepts In this paper we discuss the concept of load balancing in a service chain which has multiple virtual machines for scale-out. Figure 1 introduces the concepts of…
