Brussels / 2 & 3 February 2019

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A Scalable Approach to Virtual Switching


The seamless scaling of a vSwitch in relation to changing platform workloads running in VMs/containers in real-time can be difficult, particularly when the workloads and the vSwitch are independent entities. Typically a user/orchestrator must somehow provision vSwitch cores on-the-fly or even over-provision these cores up-front, in order to ensure the vSwitch can handle the traffic going to and from these workloads at any given time. This talk introduces an approach/approaches to vSwitching that distributes the vSwitching work alongside worker cores, and as a result automatically scales with the amount of work being done on the platform. The approach is likely to be superior to existing approaches in terms of compute cost.

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Ciara Loftus
Bruce Richardson

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