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• What are in your opinion the challenges that are faced by data center
networks?
• Universal Connectivity
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Motivation
• Universal Connectivity:
• Universal Connectivity:
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Motivation
• How can a provider keep each tenant’s traffic isolated from other
tenants’ traffic?
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Network Virtualization
Overlay Networks
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Network Virtualization
Overlay Networks
• However, the two networks in the figure are fiction. In reality, each VM
runs on a server in a rack, and racks are connected by spine
switches. Suppose, for example, that VM 2 and VM 5 run on servers
in separate racks. The network path between them includes two leaf
switches and at least a spine switch. 7
Network Virtualization
• If a port has VLAN tag X, we say that the computer connected to the
port is “on VLAN X.” VLAN technology makes the switch hardware
behave like a set of smaller switches.
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Network Virtualization
VLANs
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Network Virtualization
Limits of VLANs
• It may seem that VLAN technology suffices for a data center. Indeed,
smaller data centers have used VLANs. However, two limits prevent
the technology from handling large cloud data centers.
• First, each VLAN tag consists of twelve bits, which limits the
technology to 4096 VLANs. Over four thousand VLANs is sufficient
for a single organization because each department can be assigned a
separate VLAN number.
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Network Virtualization
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Network Virtualization
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Network Virtualization
• How can a hypervisor forward and isolate packets among the VMs it
has created?
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Network Virtualization
• Connect each VM to the virtual switch, and allow the VM to send and
receive packets, just as if the VM connected to a real network switch.
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Network Virtualization
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Network Virtualization
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Virtual Networks
Summary