Developers of Open vSwitch, the open source networking component for hypervisors, are adding network virtualization capabilities to the code. According to this post in Network Heresy, the developers ...

As core network virtualization technologies go, it’s hard to imagine one that is more strategic than Open vSwitch (OVS). OVS is now the network foundation for most VMware environments and deployments ...

How important is software-defined networking? To the Linux Foundation, it’s as important as protecting core networking protocols, devising open container standards, supporting development of the R ...

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.