Staged Deployment It is recommended that you adopt a staged deployment procedure. In this, you will create one OpenFlow instance, verify it, and then move on to creating ...
Switch Setup There are two steps in setting up a switch: 1) Preparation, which involves providing management connectivity and loading the OpenFlow enabled firmware ...
Example Setup Typically, it is a good practice to have the OpenFlow part of the switch use a different VLAN than the non OpenFlow part of the switch. With most switches ...
Using Opt in Manager What is Opt In Manager: In a nutshell, Opt In Manager (OM) is a database and web UI that holds information about the flowspace that each user ...
FlowVisor transition (from 0.4 to 0.6) Transitioning FlowVisor from 0.4 to 0.6 version involves following steps: Installing Files Install Sun release of Java. Then ...
Installing Expedient and Opt in Manager On a Ubuntu/Debian system Installing Expedient and OIM Run the following command to get the packages using apt get: ...
Requirements Switches Procure switches based on the requirements you have. See Components page for details on the different types avaialable. After procurement ...
Monitoring/Debugging Once the production setup is underway, there are several things that may be worth monitoring and debugging. There are two different classes ...
Transition to OpenFlow 1.0 OpenFlow 0.8.9 does not interwork with OpenFlow 1.0. So, we need to take special care when upgrading the network to the new version. It ...
Production Setup This guide will help you setup an OpenFlow network controlled by FlowVisor/SNAC with a set of hardware from 3 different vendors in 1 day. ...
Testing/Monitoring Basic Testing To test the setup, run the following basic tests: Login to each of the switches and insure that the CPU utilization (using ...
Controller Setup Once the switches have been configured to run OpenFlow and each instance pointed to the controller running on port 6633, we start the controller ...
Network Planning Typical production network in a building (or a campus) consists of a set of switches that are connected together and run multiple VLANs. Here are ...
nop OpenFlow/Deployment/HOWTO/ProductionSetup Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the OpenFlow/Deployment/HOWTO/ProductionSetup web. These ...