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VNToR: Network Virtualization at the Top-of-Rack Switch

Fietz, Jonas  
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Whitlock, Sam David  
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Ioannidis, George
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2016
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing

Cloud providers typically implement abstractions for net- work virtualization on the server, within the operating sys- tem that hosts the tenant virtual machines or containers. Despite being flexible and convenient, this approach has funda- mental problems: incompatibility with bare-metal support, unnecessary performance overhead, and susceptibility to hypervisor breakouts. To solve these, we propose to offload the implementation of network-virtualization abstractions to the top-of-rack switch (ToR). To show that this is feasible and beneficial, we present VNToR, a ToR that takes over the implementation of the security-group abstraction. Our prototype combines commodity switching hardware with a custom software stack and is integrated in OpenStack Neutron. We show that VNToR can store tens of thousands of access rules, adapts to traffic-pattern changes in less than a millisecond, and significantly outperforms the state of the art.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1145/2987550.2987582
Author(s)
Fietz, Jonas  
Whitlock, Sam David  
Ioannidis, George
Argyraki, Katerina  
Bugnion, Edouard  
Date Issued

2016

Published in
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
ISBN of the book

978-1-4503-4525-5/16/10

Subjects

Network virtualization

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security groups

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SR- IOV

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top-of-rack switch

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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NAL  
DCSL  
Event name
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing
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August 27, 2016
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/128906
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