Features

Open vSwitch supports the following features:

  • Visibility into inter-VM communication via NetFlow, sFlow(R), IPFIX, SPAN, RSPAN, and GRE-tunneled mirrors
  • LACP (IEEE 802.1AX-2008)
  • Standard 802.1Q VLAN model with trunking
  • Multicast snooping
  • IETF Auto-Attach SPBM and rudimentary required LLDP support
  • BFD and 802.1ag link monitoring
  • STP (IEEE 802.1D-1998) and RSTP (IEEE 802.1D-2004)
  • Fine-grained QoS control
  • Support for HFSC qdisc
  • Per VM interface traffic policing
  • NIC bonding with source-MAC load balancing, active backup, and L4 hashing
  • OpenFlow protocol support (including many extensions for virtualization)
  • IPv6 support
  • Multiple tunneling protocols (GRE, VXLAN, STT, and Geneve, with IPsec support)
  • Remote configuration protocol with C and Python bindings
  • Kernel and user-space forwarding engine options
  • Multi-table forwarding pipeline with flow-caching engine
  • Forwarding layer abstraction to ease porting to new software and hardware platforms
Updates
Recent Releases
Current release: 3.3.0
Current LTS series: 2.17.9
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