Stratosphere SSP Network Plugin

Introduction

Stratosphre SSP is an SDN controller that controls or brokers physical and or virtual network devices. Stratosphere SSP will build a vxlan backed overlay network. The plugin makes it available for cloudstack 4.2.

Purpose

This plugin will remove limitation of the number of vlan id which is limited upto 4k. This plugin also enables us to deploy a vlan domain dynamically.

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Feature Specifications

The plugin will setup a network environment by calling SSP REST api. Supported combination in the initial release will be:

• Cloudstack advanced networking.
• KVM, VMWare hypervisors.
• SSP will request hypervisort to set a specific vlan or no-vlan dependent on the bridge the hypervisor supports, then SSP will setup a vlan-vxlan conversion entries via openflow.