FlowScale is a project to divide and distribute traffic over multiple physical switch ports. FlowScale replicates the functionality in load balancing? appliances but using a Top of Rack (ToR) switch to distribute traffic. Using software to handle the control plane specification but switch hardware to do the forwarding gives both great flexibility and allows for low cost, high throughput deployments.
FlowScale components are:
- a Web UI to administer how traffic is divided? and providing a view of statistics and status
- OpenFlow controller sending rules based on policy configured
- OpenFlow capable ToR switch
Multi-Platform
FlowScale is built on Java and may run on multiple platforms. It has been tested on different distributions of Linux as well as Mac OS X.
Software
Software may be available as a binary for Linux environments or as a source tarball.
Source software is available at ?Github Warning! Software is pre-release
Quick Start Guide gives instructions on how to get started
Design documents
- Initial Design Doc
- Screenshots - Front Page - Admin
Deployments
FlowScale is currently being deployed as part of the Intrusion Detection Systems operated by the Indiana University Information Security Office
News
Slides and Poster from the FlowScale presentation at the GENI Engineering Conference 12 in Kansas City
Community
Mailing lists
Coming Soon
Bug Tracking and Feature Requests
Issues are being tracked in Github
