OpenVirteX A Network Hypervisor

Why Network Virtualization?

ü Decouples the physical network from the virtual network

ü Enables multi-tenancy ü Allows security and

isolation of the users’ traffic

A different perspective Overlay

vs. Underlay

Address Vitualization

Topology Virtualization

Control Virtualization Resiliency

Nicira NVP Overlay ✔ ✗ ✗ ✔

FlowVisor Underlay ✗ ✗ ✔ ✗

OpenVirteX Underlay ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

With OpenVirteX you can…

Design your own topology

With OpenVirteX you can…

Use your own Network Operating System

With OpenVirteX you can…

Design your own topology

Use the whole address space

With OpenVirteX you can…

Change your Virtual Network at runtime

With OpenVirteX you can… Automatically recover from physical failures

System architecture

OpenVirteX

Network Operating System Layer

Virtualization Layer

Physical Layer

in collaboration with:

ovx.onlab.us ü  Ali Al-Shabibi ü  Marc De Leenheer

ü  Matteo Gerola ü  Ayaka Koshibe

The OVX team: