SmartX multiview visibility framework leveraging open-source software for SDN-cloud playground

Abstract

Visibility measurement and associated visualization are essential for monitoring the operation of emerging converged software-defined infrastructure (SDI). However, most of existing monitoring tools are not yet ready to cover systematically whole visibility workflow. Thus, in this paper, we present an integrated design for multi-layered visibility workflow, denoted as 'SmartX MultiView Visibility Framework'. The proposed open-source framework targets to streamline the visibility workflow for collection, validation, integration, storage, staging, and visualization. As a proof of concept, initial-stage implementation is deployed over OF@TEIN multisite SDN-Cloud playground to visualize resource-layer visibility with overlapping inter-connect flow paths.