OpenvSwitch

安装指南 指导您在各种不同的平台上安装 Open vSwitch (OVS) 和 Open Virtual Network (OVN)。 教程 通过一系列步骤，带您在沙箱环境中完成 OVS 和 OVN 的配置。

概括来说， Open vSwitch（OVS） 是开源的多层虚拟交换机，专为虚拟化环境设计，支持标准管理接口（如 OpenFlow），广泛应用于云计算、SDN 和容器网络，为网络管理员提供虚拟云主机之间和之内的流量可见性与可控性。

本文介绍了OpenvSwitch (OVS)的基本概念、架构，重点讲解了vSwitch的功能、OVS的OpenFlow架构、报文处理流程，包括传统方式和DPDK方式，并列举了常用的管理工具如ovs-vsctl、ovs-ofctl等。

Open vSwitch (OVS) is an open-source implementation of a distributed virtual multilayer switch. The main purpose of Open vSwitch is to provide a switching stack for hardware virtualization environments, while supporting multiple protocols and standards us

Open vSwitch is a multilayer software switch licensed under the open source Apache 2 license. Our goal is to implement a production quality switch platform that supports standard management interfaces and opens the forwarding functions to programmatic ext

Open vSwitch can operate both as a soft switch running within the hypervisor, and as the control stack for switching silicon. It has been ported to multiple virtualization platforms and switching chipsets.