Changes between Version 13 and Version 14 of OpenFlow/FOAM/AdminIntro

Timestamp:

01/28/14 16:18:42 (10 years ago)

Author:

sedwards@bbn.com

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OpenFlow/FOAM/AdminIntro

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 == Auto-approval ==
 
-In most GENI aggregates, when an experimenter requests resources, the request is automatically approved if the requested resources are available, and rejected otherwise. For example, if an experimenter requests three ExoGENI VMs, the ExoGENI AM can satsify that request if it has the the resources available to create three VMs, or not if it doesn't, but in any case without affecting anyone else. The situation is more complicated in FOAM, since !OpenFlow resources can be shared, and requests from experimenters can overlap. For example, if an experimenter requests an IP subnet (e.g. 10.42.0.0/16), FOAM needs to check whether any other experimenters have already requested IP space that overlaps with that subnet (such as 10.0.0.0/8 or 10.42.15.0/24).
+In most GENI aggregates, when an experimenter requests resources, the request is automatically approved if the requested resources are available, and rejected otherwise. For example, if an experimenter requests three ExoGENI VMs, the ExoGENI AM can satisfy that request if it has the the resources available to create three VMs, or not if it doesn't, but in any case without affecting anyone else. The situation is more complicated in FOAM, since !OpenFlow resources can be shared, and requests from experimenters can overlap. For example, if an experimenter requests an IP subnet (e.g. 10.42.0.0/16), FOAM needs to check whether any other experimenters have already requested IP space that overlaps with that subnet (such as 10.0.0.0/8 or 10.42.15.0/24).
 
 Originally, admins were responsible for detecting these overlaps, and thus most admins configured FOAM to require manual approval of new slivers. As of FOAM 0.12.0, FOAM has an analysis engine that can identify whether a new request overlaps with existing requests, and approve it automatically if it doesn't conflict with anything else. Our [wiki:OpenFlow/FOAM#Auto-approval FOAM auto-approval docs] describe this in a fair bit of detail, including how the analysis engine works, and how we decide [wiki:OpenFlow/FOAM#Sliverapprovalworkflow what to do if a sliver isn't auto-approved].