Open vSwitch (OVS) today moved from an open source project hosted at VMware to a Linux Foundation project. “There’s been this perception that it was VMware run,” says Justin Pettit, senior staff at ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. The virtual switch, soft-switch, or 'vSwitch' is quickly becoming the heart of every datacenter network.

When we talk about server virtualization, we often mention the resources behind the technology, such as the memory, CPU, and disk. We do so because at least one of these resources will ultimately ...