Deployment Experience From Large-Scale Neutron Networks - January OpenStack L.A.

Happy New Year, everyone! As promised, the OpenStack L.A. Meetups are back and I’m thrilled to welcome a new presenter, Rob Sherwood, and a new sponsor, Big Switch Networks, to the group!

I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at this first OpenStack L.A. Meetup of 2016!

Presentation Abstract:

Deployment Experience From Large-Scale Neutron Networks

While it's easy to throw together a single rack OpenStack cluster, scaling out to 10+ racks with over 300 nodes -- particularly with Neutron-based networking -- can be a real challenge. In this talk, I will describe our scale-out Neutron deployment, our testing methodology, the problems we ran into, and how we addressed them. While this particular setup was hardware limited, we will also speculate about the next round of scaling limits and potential solutions.

Big Cloud Fabric (http://www.bigswitch.com/sdn-products/big-cloud-fabric) delivers the industry’s first unified Physical + Virtual SDN fabric – a highly resilient and automated networking solution for OpenStack data centers. Big Switch’s Switch Light software is deployed on open networking switches (Switch Light OS) as well as on virtualized KVM servers (Switch Light Virtual). Its OpenStack Neutron plugin for L2+L3 networking provides resiliency necessary for production-grade OpenStack deployments. The Big Cloud Fabric Controller acts as the single pane for provisioning, troubleshooting, visibility and analytics of the entire physical and virtual network environment.

During this presentation, you’ll see:

• Big Cloud Fabric quick overview

• Deep dive into large-scale deployments

• Scaling challenges & what's next

• A live demo + hands-on lab

Speaker Bio:

Rob Sherwood/Chief Technology Officer at Big Switch Networks

Rob serves as the CTO for Big Switch Networks, where he spends his time internally leading software architecture and externally evangelizing SDN to customers and partners. Rob is an active contributor to open source projects such as Switch Light and Floodlight as well as the Open Compute Project. He was the former Chair of the ONF's Architecture & Framework Working Group as well as vice-chair of the ONF's Testing & Interoperability Working Group. Rob prototyped the first OpenFlow-based network hypervisor, the “FlowVisor”, allowing production and experimental traffic to safely co-exist on the same physical network and is involved in various standards efforts and partner and customer engagements. Rob holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Agenda:

7:00P – 7:40P: Eating, drinking, mingling, networking

7:40P – 7:45P: Group announcements and speaker introduction

7:45P – 8:45P: Presentation/Q&A

8:45 – 10:00P: More eating, drinking, mingling, networking