November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
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Features of Open vSwitch
The following are some of the features that make Open vSwitch a better option than standard Linux networking:
- Security: Open vSwitch provides a high degree of security by allowing you to set policies per VM virtual interface.
- LACP and VLAN-aware: Open vSwitch fully supports LACP link aggregation and VLAN tagging. We can configure one Open vSwitch with multiple VLAN tags, thus reducing the management overhead of many virtual bridges per VLAN tag.
- Quality of Service: QoS or quality of service is fully supported.
- Network monitoring: We can get an extreme level of control over network packets passing through Open vSwitch by implementing powerful monitoring using Netflow and sFlow.
- IPv6: Open vSwitch fully supports IPv6. ...