Open vSwitch is a multilayer software switch licensed under the open
source Apache 2 license. Our goal is to implement a production
quality switch platform that supports standard management interfaces
-(e.g. NetFlow, RSPAN, ERSPAN, IOS-like CLI), and opens the forwarding
-functions to programmatic extension and control.
+(e.g. NetFlow, sFlow(R), RSPAN, ERSPAN, IOS-like CLI), and opens the
+forwarding functions to programmatic extension and control.
Open vSwitch is well suited to function as a virtual switch in VM
environments. In addition to exposing standard control and visibility
easily ported to other environments. The current release of Open
vSwitch supports the following features:
- * Visibility into inter-VM communication via NetFlow, SPAN, and RSPAN
+ * Visibility into inter-VM communication via NetFlow, sFlow, SPAN,
+ and RSPAN
* Standard 802.1Q VLAN model with trunking
* Per VM policing
* NIC bonding with source-MAC load balancing