On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 05:51:54PM -0500, Dan Huang wrote: > Hi > > I am interested in the scalability of OVS. Supporse that I want to deploy a > virtual network on a large cluster (multiple sites). The number of nodes > might be ( 1000- 5000) and the VMs about ( 10000-50000). > If each node has an OVS. And OVSs are connected to full mesh topology. Then > the forwarding db at least contains 10000 by 10000 to 50000 by 50000 > entries. Will this scale of setting cause some issues on OVS ? For > example, delayed forwarding or cache missing increasing? I know that OVS > can cache the forwarding entries in HMap.
If you mean 10000 to 50000 flow table entries on an individual Open vSwitch node, that's no problem at all. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
