On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 03:34:18PM +0000, Zhou, Han wrote: > We want to setup an environment for large scale SDN simulation, to verify > control plane scalability. > For example thousands of vswitches need to be simulated on top of limited > number of physical machines (e.g. 10). > Each vswitch needs to support OVSDB and OpenFlow connections to controller. > Even if installing OVS on VMs is not enough to achieve the scale. > > An idea is not using real OVS but instead simulating multiple OVSDB+OpenFlow > instances on a single VM. > Is this idea realistic based on Open vSwitch implementation? Any suggestions?
Sure. This is no problem at all. Just run multiple processes sandboxed separately with different OVS_* environment variables. We do this routinely in the OVS unit tests. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
