SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN) FOR MANAGEMENT OF TRAFFIC BETWEEN VIRTUAL PROCESSORS

摘要

An aspect includes receiving, at a software-defined networking (SDN) controller, an inquiry from a virtual switch executing on a host machine. The inquiry includes a request to identify a flow of a data packet received at the virtual switch from a source virtual processor. The source virtual processor is either a logical partition (LPAR) or a virtual machine (VM) executing under control of a hypervisor on the host machine. A destination virtual processor associated with the data packet is determined by the SDN controller. In addition, the SDN controller identifies the flow between the source virtual processor and the destination virtual processor. The flow includes a least one virtual port in the virtual switch. The SDN controller instructs the virtual switch to send the data packet from the source virtual processor to the destination virtual processor via the identified flow.