by Dan Mihai Dumitriu of Midokura at MidoDay Tokyo 2015

1. A Brief History of
MidoNet
Dan Mihai Dumitriu
Midokura CEO

2. Dan Mihai Dumitriu
⚫ Formerly developer at Amazon.com, Ballista
Securities, Sony Electronics, Reliable Network
Solutions
⚫ BS & MEng in Computer Science from Cornell
University
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3. The First Business
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4. The Gaps
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5. The Networking Problem
Eucalyptus networking was horrible
VDE - Virtual Distributed Ethernet
User space stack, only L2
No other NVO available
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6. The Inspiration
Microsoft VL2
Sigcomm 2009
Locator/Identifier
Separation
Clos Network
L3 Only
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7. Let’s Solve Them
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8. MidoNet 0.1
Python agent controlling OVS via OpenFlow
Performance was very bad
Only L3 networks
No NAT
L3 gateways with BGP
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9. Enter OpenStack
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10. OpenStack Opportunity
Flat networking was already obsolete in AWS
Natural need for NVO
Use case more complex
NAT & Security Groups
L2 networks
VM Mobility
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11. The Pivot
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12. Enhancing MidoNet
Implemented MN Agent in Java, multi-threaded
Removed OpenFlow & OVS
Distributed Flow State
L4 state used to be stored in Cassandra
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13. MidoNet Core Principles
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SPOF

14. MidoNet
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15. CSP -> Enterprise
More complex brownfield environments
VLAN segmented Ethernet -> L2 GW
Physical appliances, e.g. F5 BIG-IP
Security -> Service insertion
ESXi & vSphere
Bare metal -> VTEP GW
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16. Open Source MidoNet
MidoNet’s ecosystem is Open
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Open Solution Proprietary Solution
Cloud Platform
Cloud Distribution
Network Virtualization

17. MidoNet Future
Data Center Network OS
From Hypervisors to Bare Metal to Fabric
Multi-Site
VPC Peering, stretched L2, etc
Advanced Network Services
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18. Challenges Remain
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19. You Can Be a Hero
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20. Questions?
ask.midonet.org