OpenDaylight Summit 2015

Today's cloud is bound to have a diverse physical and virtual network infrastructure since no single vendor has solution to satisfy all cloud requirements. Diversity is good as there is no vendor lock-in. However, it brings along with it not only the issues of managing, configuring, provisioning, and programming diverse entities but also the bigger issue of identifying application flows, associating them with SLAs such as bandwidth and priorities, and enforcing these SLAs end-to-end, i.e., on-every-hop from compute nodes through the network fabric.

In this talk we will describe as to how we have solved the above issues using Solaris ODL and OpenStack. We will describe how we are leveraging some of the innovations in Solaris to identify business critical application flows and push the SLA requirements for these flows through a SDN application written to existing and new ODL NB APIs.