From the course: Network Virtualization: SDN Overlay Solutions

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Demo: Automatic OpenFlow rules

Demo: Automatic OpenFlow rules

- [Instructor] So now let's look at the VRS's. First VRS 99 99 99 108 has two virtual machines registered. I have SSH'd to the VRS. Notice the IP address of the VRS. The VRS is running OpenFlow so I can use the command sudo ovs-vsctl show exactly as you would with mini net as an example. You can see the bridge that it's using is the Nuage network's bridge rather than the standard bridge that you get, for instance, with Open vSwitch. The controller that it's communicating with is controller one with this IP address. That is the VSC that it's communicating with which in this case is VSC 1. Now this kind of information can be seen directly through the graphical use interface. But I wanted to show you that OpenFlow is being used on the VRS's and OpenFlow rules have been written to the switch. You can see as an example that it's connected to the controller and you can see the ports available on the VRS. If I wanna see the VMs that have registered I can do this command. So sudo ovs-appctl…

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