{"draft":"draft-pfaff-ovsdb-proto-04","doc_id":"RFC7047","title":"The Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol","authors":["B. Pfaff","B. Davie, Ed."],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"35","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"INDEPENDENT","abstract":"Open vSwitch is an open-source software switch designed to be used as\r\na vswitch (virtual switch) in virtualized server environments.  A\r\nvswitch forwards traffic between different virtual machines (VMs) on\r\nthe same physical host and also forwards traffic between VMs and the\r\nphysical network.  Open vSwitch is open to programmatic extension and\r\ncontrol using OpenFlow and the OVSDB (Open vSwitch Database)\r\nmanagement protocol.  This document defines the OVSDB management\r\nprotocol.  The Open vSwitch project includes open-source OVSDB client\r\nand server implementations.","pub_date":"December 2013","keywords":["vswitch","virtualization","overlay","OVS"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7047","errata_url":null}