FlowScale is a project to divide and distribute the traffic over multiple physical 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 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
Software
Software will be available soon at Github
Design documents
- Initial Design Doc
- Screenshots - Front Page
Deployments
FlowScale is currently being deployed as part of the Indiana University Intrusion Detection Systems
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
Coming soon at GitHub
