Research of a Virtual Infrastructure Network with Hybrid Software-Defined Switching

Abstract

Modern trends in the information technology have led to the fact that entire systems of infrastructure are becoming software-defined. Modern hyper-converged solutions use software-defined networking and soft switches for the hypervisor networking subsystem. The paper goal is to study traffic processing in hyperconverged structures with software switching based on OpenFlow versus traditional approaches. The features of the hyperconverged solutions network infrastructure are considered, approaches to the study of software-defined environments are described. A model of the processing traffic internal structure of a converged node, combining the functions of a hypervisor, a storage system and a switch, is proposed. Interface models reproduced traffic switching with the traditional approach and with higher-level OpenFlow processing have been developed. The approaches to the implementation of the developed models based on experimental studies of network equipment are described. The results of an experimental study of a network node and a synthesized model are presented. The possibility of implementing the proposed approaches within the specified accuracy are described.

Keywords

• modeling
• OpenFlow
• switch
• traffic
• QoS