Documentation
General Instructions
- Overview of functionality and components
- Building and Installing Open vSwitch
- Configuration Cookbook (overview of common configuration tasks)
Instructions for Specialized Scenarios
- Building and installing Open vSwitch for Citrix XenServer
- Using Open vSwitch with KVM
- Using Open vSwitch as an OpenFlow Switch
- Using Open vSwitch without kernel support
- Open vSwitch compatibility layer for Linux bridging
- Using SSL/TLS for Open vSwitch control protocols
- ovs-appctl(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-brcompatd(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-controller(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-discover(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-dpctl(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-kill(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-ofctl(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-openflowd(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-pki(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-vsctl(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-vswitchd(8) as HTML or PDF
- ovs-vswitchd.conf.db(5) as PDF
Research Papers
- J. Pettit, J. Gross, B. Pfaff, M. Casado, S. Crosby, “Virtual Switching in an Era of Advanced Edges,” 2nd Workshop on Data Center – Converged and Virtual Ethernet Switching (DC-CAVES), ITC 22, Sep. 6, 2010.
- B. Pfaff, J. Pettit, T. Koponen, K. Amidon, M. Casado, S. Shenker, “Extending Networking into the Virtualization Layer,” HotNets-VIII, Oct. 22-23, 2009.