A company is conventionally divided into several departments, each having a well-defined purpose. The same goes for the network system and hardware residing within each of these departments. The purpose of the virtual network tenant project of OpenDaylight is to alleviate the physical network consideration, letting the software deal with it. Virtual Tenant Network (VTN) allows you to create network functions as virtual entities without having to consider the physical network, as it will automatically map the desired network capabilities on it once the configuration is done. Thus, you will better utilize resources and reduce the reconfiguration time of network services.
The project provides two main components:
- VTN Manager:
- This is an internal OpenDaylight application that interacts with other modules, implementing components of the VTN model...
