Crossbow : Network Virtualization & Resource Management
posted Monday, 24 March 2008
| So my current focus is populating my Toshiba laptop with two Solaris Containers - a MySQL container and a GlassFish container. Now the Toshiba laptop is an ancient creature and I'm wondering how it will stand up to all this poking and prodding. I was looking at the network interface aspect (of multiple zones) and I learned something really cool and very interesting - Crossbow. Crossbow provides the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control by creating virtual stacks around any service (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, etc.), protocol (TCP, UDP, SCTP, etc.), or Virtual machines like Containers, Xen and ldoms. The project allows the system administrator to carve out any physical NIC into multiple virtual NICs which are pretty similar to real NICs and are administered just like real NICs. Each Virtual NIC can be assigned its own priority and band-width on a shared NIC without causing any performance degradation. It is a project in the OpenSolaris project. | |
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