Software Defined Datacenter:
Problem statement:
Overview:
Deploying a Software defined network(SDN) on a physical hardware consisting raspberry pi. Performing network slicing and further installing firewall as a service on the sliced network.
Description:
The deployed single physical network which contains two types of traffic : Type-1 (Faculty) and Type-2 (students). The Type-1 traffic gets higher bandwidth and lower delays and goes through relaxed firewall rules while Type-2 gets smaller bandwidth per user and best effort delays and restricted rules through firewall.
Tasks:
- Deploy SDN network on hardware using 6 host(3 raspberry pi and 3 ubuntu complaint system), neatgear L2 switch and SDN software components. This is task 1.
- Performing network slicing using OpenVirtex and mininet. This is task 2.
- Deploying SDN virtual network according to the description provided above.
- Installing various network functions such as Firewall as a Service(FWaaS) on the above sliced network inside mininet. This is task 3.
Project Documentation:
- Network topology deployed using SDN on physical hardware.
- Procedure followed for various tasks:
a. For task 1.
b. For task 2.
c. For task 3.
Few references to working VM images for SDN softwares:
- Mininet VM, a network simulation tool for SDN network.
- FloodLight VM, a SDN controller.
- OpenVirtex VM, a network slicing tool.