Re: any opensource controllers to recommand?

David Erickson
Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:51:32 -0000

Hi Jon-
There are ''binaries'' available, see
https://openflow.stanford.edu/display/Beacon/Releases
I encourage you to make sure you are running the latest Oracle JDK/JRE 6
release.  If you have any questions feel free to post on the forum:
https://openflow.stanford.edu/forums/forum/4-beacon-general/

-David

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Jonathon Royle
<jonathon@royleminns.co.uk>wrote:

>  I have also been looking for a good opensource controller so I was
> interested in this thread.  Is there a binary version for Centos 5/6
> available.  The link I followed just provided source code and instructions
> for building within the eclipse IDE.****
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> *From:* Joseph Glanville [mailto:joseph.glanville@orionvm.com.au]
> *Sent:* 03 August 2012 01:08
> *To:* David Erickson
> *Cc:* yue wang; xen-users@lists.xen.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Xen-users] any opensource controllers to recommand?****
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> On 2 August 2012 10:39, David Erickson <halcyon1981@gmail.com>
wrote:****
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> I am biased as the author of Beacon (http://www.beaconcontroller.net/),
> but I have been using it with a cluster of 80 XenServer machines running
> OVS, interconnected by physical OpenFlow switches for over a year.****
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> I''ll second Beacon as a good choice. Great performance and
probably the
> most featureful of the open-source controllers.****
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> If you want to get hacking on stuff really fast then there is NOX which
> though not as tanky as Beacon lets you write extensions in Python, which is
> imo a big plus.****
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> There is also this project which I am yet to try out but it looks
> interesting:****
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> https://github.com/trema****
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> It seems to be the remnants of the NEC Helios controller. (which to my
> knowledge was never available anywhere).****
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> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:57 PM, yue wang <heuye.wang@gmail.com>
wrote:***
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>  Hi, All****
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> do you have any opensource controllers to recommand？****
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> since XCP don''t have a controller to control OVS centrally,i need
a
> controller like vswitch controller for xenserver.****
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> there are so many open source openflow controller, i really don''t
know
> which one to choose.****
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