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Navigation ▾ Overview Documentation ▾ ▾ (latest) 2.5.x Man Pages Talks & Presentations ▾ ▾ OVS+OVNcon 2020 OVS+OVNcon 2019 OVScon 2018 OVScon 2017 OpenStack Boston 2017 OVScon 2016 OVScon 2015 OVScon 2014 Papers Presentations Interviews YouTube Channel Download Mailing Lists Charter You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience and security. Production Quality, Multilayer Open Virtual Switch What is ? is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. It is designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag). In addition, it is designed to support distribution across multiple physical servers similar to VMware's vNetwork distributed vswitch or Cisco's Nexus 1000V. See full feature list here Download Introducing To understand why virtualized environments require a new approach to switching, read the WHY-OVS document that is distributed with the source code. is used in multiple products and runs in many large production environments (some very, very large). Each stable release is run through a regression suite of hundreds of system-level tests and thousands of unit tests. In addition to OVS, the community maintains the OVN project . OVN complements the existing capabilities of OVS to add native support for virtual network abstractions, such as virtual L2 and L3 overlays and security groups. News and OVN Fall Conference 2020 was held online Dec. 8 and 9. View abstracts, slides, and videos from the conference. Join Community announce ( subscribe ) discuss ( subscribe ) dev ( subscribe ) git ( subscribe ) build ( subscribe ) Supported Platform can operate both as a soft switch running within the hypervisor, and as the control stack for switching silicon. It has been ported to multiple virtualization platforms and switching chipsets. It is the default switch in XenServer 6.0 , the Xen Cloud Platform and also supports Xen , KVM , Proxmox VE and VirtualBox . It has also been integrated into many virtual management systems including OpenStack , openQRM , OpenNebula and oVirt . The kernel datapath is distributed with Linux , and packages are available for Ubuntu , Debian , Fedora and openSUSE . is also supported on FreeBSD and NetBSD . The release in development has been ported to DPDK . The bulk of the code is written in platform-independent C and is easily ported to other environments. © 2016 A Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. All Rights Reserved. Linux Foundation is a registered trademark of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. and OvS are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Please see our privacy policy and terms of use ....