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OpenFlow Campus Trials at Indiana University GEC10 Report

Christopher Small – Principal Investigator
Matthew Davy – Co-Principal Investigator
Dave Jent – Co-Principal Investigator

Summary

  • "Tango GENI" demonstration of initial integration with AM and other campuses
  • Expansion of IU deployment with NetGear switch and additional HP 5406s
  • Measurement Manager additional features deployed and demonstrated at GEC10
  • Outreach effort at workshops at Internet2 Joint Techs and APRICOT-APAN conferences
  • Began work on Loadbalancer application with Clemson
  • Production Operational Support

Major Accomplishments

Milestones

Initial integration with AM and other campuses: We deployed a Expedient and Opt-In manager instance connected to the IU Flowvisor. This deployment was successfully used as part of the GENI for Everyone demo. The demonstration showed that a rather complex OpenFlow topology (3 Openflow enabled switches over 2 campuses) could be utilized for external experiments. There were issues with slice creation on the MyPLC nodes in Bloomington because of issues with the nodemanager code crashing on the Planetlab hosts but this was not realted to the core OpenFlow deployment.

Expand Indiana University OF deployment: We deployed a NetGear switch in the IU Bloomington Telecommunication Services building to allow additional engineers to participate in the OpenFlow network. It also gives an opportunity to discover issues with operating a multi-vendor environment. We have also purchased a NetFPGA 1G and 10G cards to assist in the creation of new production applications.

Deleverables

Measurement Manager: The Measurement Manager was originally deployed and demonstrated at GEC9. This software capture information about the state of the OpenFlow infrastructure including topology, utilization and configuration of each OpenFlow aggregate. It also captures information thorough the FlowVisor API about the configuration and use of each slice. The collected information can be used by the experimenter, GENI operator or the aggregate owner to monitor and capture information about the experiments and the state of the infrastructure.

For GEC10 we demonstrated additional monitoring with Nagios montoring of connectivity to campuses using the GENI for Everyone Demo and vlan 3715 and 3716 across the backbone networks. OpenFlow Aggregate and port statistics are also captured utilizing the statistics.

Currently data is being collected from the IU, National Lambda Rail and Internet2 OpenFlow networks

More information about the Measurement Manager is at: Measurement Manager

Currently a number of Measurement Manager output formats are used to drive data collection. The Measurement Manager generates configuration for measurement, monitoring and collection of topology information. Some of the live data from the GENI OpenFlow infrastructure is linked below.

Nagios monitoring of infrastructure Status: http://gmoc-db.grnoc.iu.edu/nagios/

Aggregate OpenFlow Statistics: http://gmoc-db.grnoc.iu.edu/mm-of/

National Lambda Rail OpenFlow Port Statistics: http://gmoc-db.grnoc.iu.edu/nlr-of/

GMOC Representation of Openflow Topology and Slice information: http://gmoc-db.grnoc.iu.edu/ [click on the OpenFlow aggregate button]

Description of Work Performed During Last Quarter

Activities and Findings

LoadBalancer:

Production Deployment:

Project Participants

During this time, key participants in the OpenFlow campus trial included:

  • Chris Small, PI
  • Matt Davy, Co-PI
  • John Meylor
  • Ed Furia
  • Camilo Viecco
  • Ian Bobbitt

Collaborations

Clemson (loadBalancer) Stanford (monitoring) CpQD (L3 router) Internet2 (monitoring) NLR (monitoring)

Project Participants

During this time, key participants in the OpenFlow campus trial included:

  • Chris Small, PI
  • Matt Davy, Co-PI
  • John Meylor
  • Ed Furia
  • Camilo Viecco
  • Ian Bobbitt

Publications & Documents

Small, C, Measurement Manager Poster GENI Engineering Conference, San Juan Nov 2-4 http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/OFIU-GEC10-status/IU_OF_GEC10_poster.pdf

Davy, M. , Small, C, OpenFlow BoF, Internet 2 Joint Techs, Clemson http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/OFIU-GEC10-status/20110131-small-openflow.pdf

Small, C. "OpenFlow Workshop" Future Internet Workshop at APRICOT-APAN - Hong Kong Aug 27 http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/OFIU-GEC10-status/OpenFlow-APAN.pdf

GENI Documents

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