A pragmatic introduction to Open vSwitch (OVS), the most popular production quality, multilayer virtual switch.

Licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license.

The talk includes a brief history and introduction, followed by creating an OVS based network on the fly.

Audience will learn what is Open vSwitch, how to create networks with it and what solutions use it today.

About Edward Haas Edward Haas is a software engineer at Red Hat. He has been dealing with the communications field for about 20 years. In recent years he has been working on speeding up data transfer using software. Today he is part of the virtualization group at Red Hat and specializes in the subject of networking.