Crossbow@CHOSUG, June 2007
Agenda
-The agenda is common to all events in Zürich & Lausanne
- Unfortunately, we could not manage to organize a meeting in Geneva as initially planned. Please consider attending the Lausanne meeting instead. really sorry for that.
-Presentation & demo of project Crossbow: Networking Virtualization and Bandwidth Partitioning by Nicolas Droux, Sun Microsystems.
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 or Xen.
Each virtual stack can be assigned its own priority and bandwidth on
a shared NIC without causing any performance degradation. The
architecture dynamically manages priority and bandwidth resources, and
can provide better defense against denial-of-service attacks directed
at a particular service or virtual machine by isolating the impact
just to that entity. The virtual stacks are separated by means of
hardware classification engines such that traffic for one stack does
not impact other virtual stacks.*
Nicolas Droux is a Senior Staff Engineer with the Solaris Networking group at Sun Microsystems. He is currently working on the challenges surrounding networking performance and virtualization. In the recent past he was leading the effort that delivered Project Nemo, a new high-performance network device driver framework in Solaris.
