- control system to respond and adapt as the environment changes. This
- includes simple accounting and visibility support such as NetFlow and
- sFlow. But perhaps more useful, Open vSwitch supports a network state
- database (OVSDB) that supports remote triggers. Therefore, a piece of
- orchestration software can "watch" various aspects of the network and
- respond if/when they change. This is used heavily today, for example,
- to respond to and track VM migrations.
+ control system to respond and adapt as the environment changes.
+ This includes simple accounting and visibility support such as
+ NetFlow, IPFIX, and sFlow. But perhaps more useful, Open vSwitch
+ supports a network state database (OVSDB) that supports remote
+ triggers. Therefore, a piece of orchestration software can "watch"
+ various aspects of the network and respond if/when they change.
+ This is used heavily today, for example, to respond to and track VM
+ migrations.