TY - JOUR
T1 - Throughput and Latency of Virtual Switching with Open vSwitch
T2 - A Quantitative Analysis
AU - Emmerich, Paul
AU - Raumer, Daniel
AU - Gallenmüller, Sebastian
AU - Wohlfart, Florian
AU - Carle, Georg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - Virtual switches, like Open vSwitch, have emerged as an important part of today’s data centers. They connect interfaces of virtual machines and provide an uplink to the physical network via network interface cards. We discuss usage scenarios for virtual switches involving physical and virtual network interfaces. We present extensive black-box tests to quantify the throughput and latency of software switches with emphasis on the market leader, Open vSwitch. Finally, we explain the observed effects using white-box measurements.
AB - Virtual switches, like Open vSwitch, have emerged as an important part of today’s data centers. They connect interfaces of virtual machines and provide an uplink to the physical network via network interface cards. We discuss usage scenarios for virtual switches involving physical and virtual network interfaces. We present extensive black-box tests to quantify the throughput and latency of software switches with emphasis on the market leader, Open vSwitch. Finally, we explain the observed effects using white-box measurements.
KW - Cloud
KW - MoonGen
KW - Network measurement
KW - Performance characterization
KW - Performance evaluation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85025430408&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10922-017-9417-0
DO - 10.1007/s10922-017-9417-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85025430408
SN - 1064-7570
VL - 26
SP - 314
EP - 338
JO - Journal of Network and Systems Management
JF - Journal of Network and Systems Management
IS - 2
ER -