Use Cases for DC Network Virtualization Overlays
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draft-mity-nvo3-use-case-03
Network working group L. Yong
Internet Draft Huawei
Category: Informational M. Toy
Comcast
A. Isaac
Bloomberg
V. Manral
Hewlett-Packard
L. Dunbar
Huawei
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Use Cases for DC Network Virtualization Overlays
draft-mity-nvo3-use-case-03
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Abstract
This draft describes the generalized NVO3 use cases. The work
intention is to help validate the NVO3 framework and requirements as
along with the development of the solutions.
Conventions used in this document
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [RFC2119].
Table of Contents
1. Introduction...................................................3
2. Terminology....................................................4
3. Virtual Networks in a Data Center..............................4
4. Interconnecting DC Virtual Network and External Networks.......6
4.1. DC Virtual Network Access via Internet....................6
4.2. DC Virtual Network and WAN VPN Interconnection............7
5. DC Applications Using NVO3.....................................9
5.1. Supporting Multi Technologies in a Data Center............9
5.2. Tenant Virtual Network with Bridging/Routing.............10
5.3. Virtual Data Center......................................11
6. OAM Considerations............................................13
7. Summary.......................................................13
8. Security Considerations.......................................14
9. IANA Considerations...........................................14
10. Acknowledgements.............................................14
11. References...................................................14
11.1. Normative References....................................14
11.2. Informative References..................................15
Authors' Addresses...............................................16
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1. Introduction
Compute Virtualization has dramatically and quickly changed IT
industry in terms of efficiency, cost, and the speed in providing a
new applications and/or services. However the problems in today's
data center hinder the support of an elastic cloud service and
dynamic virtual tenant networks [NVO3PRBM]. The goal of DC Network
Virtualization Overlays, i.e. NVO3, is to decouple the end systems
(VMs) and DC physical networks and to allow the network
infrastructure to provide: 1) traffic isolation among one virtual
network and another; 2) independent address space in each virtual
network and address isolation from the infrastructure's; 3) VM
placement and move from one server to another without any physical
network limitation. These characteristics will help address the
issues in the data centers.
Although NVO3 may enable a true virtual environment where VMs and
net service appliances communicate, the NVO3 solution has to address
how to communicate between a virtual network and a physical network.
This is because 1) many traditional DCs exist and will not disappear
any time soon; 2) a lot of DC applications serve to Internet and/or
cooperation users; 3) some applications like Big Data analytics
which are CPU bound may not want to the virtualization capability.
This document is to describe generalized NVO3 use cases in various
data center networks to make sure the future framework and solutions
can meet the demand. Three types of the use cases are:
o A virtual network connects many tenant end systems within a Data
Center and form one L2 or L3 communication domain. A virtual
network segregates its traffic from others and allows the VMs in
the network moving from one server to another. The case may be
used for DC internal applications that constitute the DC East-
West traffic.
o A DC provider offers a secure DC service to an enterprise
customer and/or Internet users. In these cases, the enterprise
customer may use a traditional VPN provided by a carrier or an
IPsec tunnel over Internet connecting to an overlay virtual
network offered by a Data Center provider. This is mainly
constitutes DC North-South traffic.
o A DC provider uses NVO3 to design a variety of DC applications
that make use of the net service appliance, virtual compute,
storage, and networking. In this case, the NVO3 provides the
virtual networking functions for the applications.
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The document uses the architecture reference model and terminologies
defined in [NVO3FRWK] to describe the use cases.
2. Terminology
This document uses the terminologies defined in [NVO3FRWK],
[RFC4364]. Some additional terms used in the document are listed
here.
CUG: Closed User Group
L2 VNI: L2 Virtual Network Instance
L3 VNI: L3 Virtual Network Instance
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
CPE: Customer Premise Equipment
DNS: Domain Name Service
DMZ: DeMilitarized Zone
NAT: Network Address Translation
VNIF: Internal Virtual Network Interconnection Interface
3. Virtual Networks in a Data Center
A tenant virtual network may exist within a DC. The network
interconnects many tenant end systems (ESs) which can be hosted by
physical servers or virtual machines (VMs). The network enables the
communication among the ESs that are considered as Closed User
Groups (CUG). A virtual network has a unique virtual network
identifier for switches/routers to properly differentiate them from
virtual networks. The Closed User Groups are formed so that proper
policies can be applied when the ESs in one CUG communicate with the
ESs in other CUGs.
Figure 1 depicts this case by using the framework model. [NVO3FRWK]
NVE1 and NVE2 are two network virtual edges and each may exist on a
server or ToR. Each NVE may be the members of multiple virtual
networks that may have different topologies and run at L2 or L3
individually. In this illustration, three virtual networks with VN
context Ta, Tn, and Tm are shown. The VNIa terminates on both NVE1
and NVE2; The VNIn terminates on NVE1 and the VNIm at NVE2 only.
Each NVE has one overlay module to perform frame
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encapsulation/decapsulation and tunneling initiation/termination. In
this scenario, a tunnel between NVE1 and NVE2 is necessary for the
virtual network Ta. Note that it is possible that one TES
participates in more than one virtual network via one VAP for each;
further if individual virtual networks use different address spaces,
the TES participating in them will be configured with multiple
addresses as well. A TES as a gateway is an example.
A VNI on an NVE is a forwarding table that caches and/or maintains
the mapping of an end system and its attached NVE. The table entry
may be updated by the control plane or data plane or the combination
of both. A TES associates to one VNI via a VAP. One tenant virtual
network may terminate on many NVEs and interconnect several
thousands of TESs, the capability of supporting a lot of TESs per
tenant instance and TES mobility is critical for NVO3 solution no
matter where an NVE resides.
+------- L3 Network ------+
| Tunnel Overlay |
+------------+--------+ +--------+-------------+
| +----------+------+ | | +------+----------+ |
| | Overlay Module | | | | Overlay Module | |
| +---+---------+---+ | | +--+----------+---+ |
| |Ta |Tn | | |Ta |Tm |
| +--+---+ +--+---+ | | +-+----+ +--+---+ |
| | VNIa |..| VNIn | | | | VNIa |..| VNIm | |
NVE1 | ++----++ ++----++ | | ++----++ ++----++ | NVE2
| |VAPs| |VAPs| | | |VAPs| |VAPs| |
+---+----+----+----+--+ +---+----+----+----+---+
| | | | | | | |
------+----+----+----+------ -----+----+----+----+-----
| .. | | .. | Tenant | .. | | .. |
| | | | Service IF | | | |
Tenant End Systems Tenant End Systems
Figure 1 NVo3 for Tenant End-System interconnection
Individual virtual networks may use its own address space and the
space is isolated from DC infrastructure. This eliminates the route
changes in the DC underlying network when VMs move. Note that the
NVO3 solutions still have to address VM move in the overlay network,
i.e. the TES/NVE association change when a VM moves.
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It is worth mentioning two scenarios regarding to the NVE location.
At first an NVE resides on a server, a server manager system such as
vCenter [VMWARE] is responsible to create NVE/VNs and VMs, and also
responsible to assign a VM to a VN that has unique identification,
the server software just makes it works properly and securely.
Second an NVE resides on physical switch such as ToR, when a server
manger system creates a VM and add it to a VN, the server will send
a notification of TES participating in a VN to the local NVE.
[ESYS][VDP] Note that if non-virtualized server is used, local
configuration on NVE is necessary to attach the TES (server) to a VN.
In both cases, when a local NVE notices the new attached TES in a VN,
it will announce the TES to remote NVEs or to a mapping server via a
control plane protocol. In the case of using mapping server, the
remote NVEs can query the server for any TES location and cache it
in the VNI.
If a tenant virtual network spans across multiple DC sites, one
design is to allow the corresponding NVO3 instance seamlessly span
across those sites without DC gateway routers' termination (see
section 4.3). In this case, the tunnel between a pair of NVEs may in
turn be tunneled over other intermediate tunnels over the Internet
or other WANs, or the intra DC and inter DC tunnels are stitched
together to form an end-to-end tunnel between two NVEs.
4. Interconnecting DC Virtual Network and External Networks
For customers (an enterprise or individuals) who want to utilize the
DC provider's compute and storage resources to run their
applications, they need to access those end systems hosted in a DC
through Carrier WANs or Internet. A DC provider may want to use an
NVO3 virtual network to connect these end systems; then it, in turn,
becomes the case of interconnecting DC virtual network and external
networks. Two cases are described here.
4.1. DC Virtual Network Access via Internet
A user or an enterprise customer may want to connect to a DC virtual
network via Internet but securely. Figure 2 illustrates this case.
An L3 virtual network is configured on NVE1 and NVE2 and two NVEs
are connected via an L3 tunnel in the Data Center. A set of tenant
end systems attach to NVE1. The NVE2 connects to one (may be more)
TES that runs the VN gateway and NAT applications (known as net
service appliance). A user or customer can access the VN via
Internet by using IPsec tunnel [RFC4301]. The encrypted tunnel is
established between the VN GW and the user machine or CPE at
enterprise location. The VN GW provides authentication scheme and
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encryption. Note that VN GW function may be performed by a net
service appliance or on a DC GW.
+--------------+ +----------+
| +------+ | | Firewall | TES
+----+(OM)+L3 VNI+--+-+ NAT | (VN GW)
| | +------+ | +----+-----+
L3 Tunnel +--------------+ ^
| NVE2 |IPsec Tunnel
+--------+---------+ .--. .--.
| +------+-------+ | ( :' '.--.
| |Overlay Module| | .-.' : )
| +------+-------+ | ( Internet )
| +-----+------+ | ( : /
| | L3 VNI | | '-' : '-'
NVE1 | +-+--------+-+ | \../+\.--/'
+----+--------+----+ |
| ... | V
Tenant End Systems User Access
DC Provider Site
OM: Overlay Module;
Figure 2 DC Virtual Network Access via Internet
4.2. DC Virtual Network and WAN VPN Interconnection
A DC Provider and Carrier may build a VN and VPN independently and
interconnect the two at the DC GW and PE for an enterprise customer.
Figure 3 depicts this case in a L3 overlay (L2 overlay is the same).
The DC provider constructs an L3 VN between the NVE1 on a server and
the NVE2 on the DC GW in the DC site; the carrier constructs an
L3VPN between PE1 and PE2 in its IP/MPLS network. An Ethernet
Interface physically connects the DC GW and PE2 devices. The local
VLAN over the Ethernet interface [VRF-LITE] is configured to connect
the L3VNI/NVE2 and VRF, which makes the interconnection between the
L3 VN in the DC and the L3VPN in IP/MPLS network. An Ethernet
Interface may be used between PE1 and CE to connect the L3VPN and
enterprise physical networks.
This configuration allows the enterprise networks communicating to
the L3 VN as if its own networks but not communicating with DC
provider physical networks as well as not other overlay networks in
the DC. The enterprise may use its own address space on the L3 VN.
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The DC provider can manage the VM and storage assignment to the L3
VN for the enterprise customer. The enterprise customer can
determine and load the applications running on the VMs. From the L3
VN perspective, an end point in the enterprise location appears as
the end point associating to the NVE2. The NVE2 on the DC GW has to
perform both the GRE tunnel termination [RFC4797] and the local VLAN
termination and forward the packets in between. The DC provider and
Carrier negotiate the local VLAN ID used on the Ethernet interface.
This configuration makes the L3VPN over the WANs only has the
reachbility of the L3 VN. It does not have the reachability of DC
physical networks and other VNs in the DC. However, the L3VPN has
the reachbility of enterprise networks. Note that both the DC
provider and enterprise may have multiple network locations
connecting to the L3VPN.
The eBGP protocol can be used between DC GW and PE2 for the route
population in between. In fact, this is like the Option A in
[RFC4364]. This configuration can work with any NVO3 solution. The
eBGP, OSPF, or other can be used between PE1 and CE for the route
population.
+-----------------+ +-------------+
| +----------+ | | +-------+ |
NVE2 | | L3 VNI +---+===========+-+ VRF | |
| +----+-----+ | VLAN | +---+---+ | PE2
| | | | | |
| +-----+-------+ | /+-----+-------+--\
| |Overly Module| | ( : '
| +-------------+ | { : }
+--------+--------+ { : LSP Tunnel }
| ; : ;
|GER Tunnel { IP/MPLS Network }
| \ : /
+--------+---------+ +----+------+ -
| +------+-------+ | | +--+---+ | '
| |Overlay Module| | | | VRF | |
| +------+-------+ | | +--+---+ | PE1
| |Ta | | | |
| +-----+------+ | +----+------+
| | L3 VNI | | |
NVE1 | +-+--------+-+ | |
| | VAPs | | CE Site
+----+--------+----+
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| ... | Enterprise Site
Tenant End Systems
DC Provider Site
Figure 3 L3 VNI and L3VPN interconnection across multi networks
If an enterprise only has one location, it may use P2P VPWS [RFC4664]
or L2TP [RFC5641] to connect one DC provider site. In this case, one
edge connects to a physical network and another edge connects to an
overlay network.
The interesting feature in this use case is that the L3 VN and
compute resource are managed by the DC provider. The DC operator can
place them at any location without notifying the enterprise and
carrier because the DC physical network is completely isolated from
the carrier and enterprise network. Furthermore, the DC operator may
move the compute resources assigned to the enterprise from one place
to another in the DC without the enterprise customer awareness, i.e.
no impact on the enterprise 'live' applications running these
resources. Such advanced feature brings some new requirements for
NVO3 [NVO3PRBM].
5. DC Applications Using NVO3
NVO3 brings DC operators the flexibility to design different
applications in a virtual environment without worry about physical
network configuration in the Data Center. DC operators may build
several virtual networks and interconnect them directly to form a
tenant virtual network; or may allocate some VMs to run tenant
applications and some to run net service applications such as
Firewall, DNS for the tenant. Several use cases are given in this
section.
5.1. Supporting Multi Technologies in a Data Center
Most likely servers deployed in a large data center are rolled in at
different times and may have different capacities/features. Some
servers may be virtualized, some may not; some may be equipped with
virtual switches, some may not. For the ones equipped with
hypervisor based virtual switches, some may support VxLAN [VXLAN]
encapsulation, some may support NvGRE encapsulation [NVGRE], and
some may not support any types of encapsulation. To construct a
tenant virtual network among these servers and the ToRs, it may use
two virtual networks and a gateway to allow different
implementations working together. For example, one virtual network
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uses VxLAN encapsulation and another virtual network uses
traditional VLAN.
The gateway entity, either on VMs or standalone one, participates in
to both virtual networks, and maps the services and identifiers and
changes the packet encapsulations.
5.2. Tenant Virtual Network with Bridging/Routing
A tenant virtual network may span across multiple Data Centers. DC
operator may want to use L2VN within a DC and L3VN outside DCs for a
tenant. This is very similar to today's DC physical network
configuration. L2 bridging has the simplicity and endpoint awareness
while L3 routing has advantages in aggregation and scalability. For
this configuration, the virtual gateway function is necessary to
interconnect L2VN and L3VN in each DC. Figure 5 illustrates this
configuration.
Figure 5 depicts two DC sites. The site A constructs an L2VN that
terminates on NVE1, NVE2, and GW1. An L3VN is configured between the
GW1 at site A and the GW2 at site Z. An internal Virtual Network
Interconnection Interface (VNIF) connects to L2VNI and L3VNI on GW1.
Thus the GW1 is the members of the L2VN and L3VN. The L2VNI is the
MAC/NVE mapping table and the L3VNI is IP prefix/NVE mapping table.
Note that a VNI also has the mapping of TES and VAP at the local NVE.
The site Z has the similar configuration. A packet coming to the GW1
from L2VN will be descapulated and converted into an IP packet and
then encapsulated and sent to the site Z. The Gateway uses ARP
protocol to obtain MAC/IP mapping. Note that both the L2VN and L3VN
in the figure are carried by the tunnels supported by the underlying
networks which are not shown in the figure.
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+------------+ +-----------+
GW1| +-----+ | '''''''''''''''' | +-----+ |GW2
| |L3VNI+----+' L3VN '+---+L3VNI| |
| +--+--+ | '''''''''''''''' | +--+--+ |
| |VNIF | | VNIF| |
| +--+--+ | | +--+--+ |
| |L2VNI| | | |L2VNI| |
| +--+--+ | | +--+--+ |
+----+-------+ +------+----+
''''|'''''''''' ''''''|'''''''
' L2VN ' ' L2VN '
NVE1 ''/'''''''''\'' NVE2 NVE3 '''/'''''''\'' NVE4
+-----+---+ +----+----+ +------+--+ +----+----+
| +--+--+ | | +--+--+ | | +---+-+ | | +--+--+ |
| |L2VNI| | | |L2VNI| | | |L2VNI| | | |L2VNI| |
| ++---++ | | ++---++ | | ++---++ | | ++---++ |
+--+---+--+ +--+---+--+ +--+---+--+ +--+---+--+
|...| |...| |...| |...|
TESs TESs TESs TESs
DC Site A DC Site Z
Figure 4 Tenant Virtual Network with Bridging/Routing
5.3. Virtual Data Center
Enterprise DC's today may often use several routers, switches, and
service devices to construct its internal network, DMZ, and external
network access. A DC Provider may offer a virtual DC to an
enterprise customer to run enterprise applications such as
website/emails. Instead of using many hardware devices, with the
overlay and virtualization technology of NVO3, DC operators can
build them on top of a common network infrastructure for many
customers and run service applications per customer basis. The
service applications may include firewall, gateway, DNS, load
balancer, NAT, etc.
Figure 6 below illustrates this scenario. For the simple
illustration, it only shows the L3VN or L2VN as virtual and overlay
routers or switches. In this case, DC operators construct several L2
VNs (L2VNx, L2VNy, L2VNz in figure 6) to group the end tenant
systems together per application basis, create an L3VNa for the
internal routing. A server or VM runs firewall/gateway applications
and connects to the L3VNa and Internet. A VPN tunnel is also built
between the gateway and enterprise router. The design runs
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Enterprise Web/Mail/VoIP applications at the provider DC site; lets
the users at Enterprise site to access the applications via the VPN
tunnel and Internet via a gateway at the Enterprise site; let
Internet users access the applications via the gateway in the
provider DC. The enterprise operators can also use the VPN tunnel or
IPsec over Internet to access the vDC for the management purpose.
The firewall/gateway provides application-level and packet-level
gateway function and/or NAT function.
The Enterprise customer decides which applications are accessed by
intranet only and which by both intranet and extranet; DC operators
then design and configure the proper security policy and gateway
function. DC operators may further set different QoS levels for the
different applications for a customer.
This application requires the NVO3 solution to provide the DC
operator an easy way to create NVEs and VNIs for any design and to
quickly assign TESs to a VNI, and easily configure policies on an
NVE.
Internet ^ Internet
|
^ +-+----+
| | GW |
| +--+---+
| |
+-------+--------+ +-+----+
|FireWall/Gateway+---VPN Tunnel---+Router|
+-------+--------+ +-+--+-+
| | |
...+... |..|
+-----: L3VNa :--------+ LANs
| ....... |
| | | Enterprise Site
...+... ...+... ...+...
: L2VNx : : L2VNy : : L2VNz :
....... ....... .......
|..| |..| |..|
| | | | | |
Web Apps Mail Apps VoIP Apps
Provider DC Site
* firewall/gateway may run on a server or VMs
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Figure 5 Virtual Data Center by Using NVO3
6. OAM Considerations
NVO3 brings the ability for a DC provider to segregate tenant
traffic. A DC provider needs to manage and maintain NVO3 instances.
Similarly, the tenant needs to be informed about tunnel failures
impacting tenant applications.
Various OAM and SOAM tools and procedures are defined in [IEEE
802.1ag, ITU-T Y.1731, RFC4378, RFC5880, ITU-T Y.1564] for L2 and L3
networks, and for user, including continuity check, loopback, link
trace, testing, alarms such as AIS/RDI, and on-demand and periodic
measurements. These procedures may apply to tenant overlay networks
and tenants not only for proactive maintenance, but also to ensure
support of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
As the tunnel traverses different networks, OAM messages need to be
translated at the edge of each network to ensure end-to-end OAM.
It is important that failures at lower layers which do not affect
NVo3 instance are to be suppressed.
7. Summary
The document describes some basic potential use cases of NVO3. The
combination of these cases should give operators flexibility and
power to design more sophisticated cases for various purposes.
The main differences between other overlay network technologies and
NVO3 is that the client edges of the NVO3 network are individual and
virtualized hosts, not network sites or LANs. NVO3 enables these
virtual hosts communicating in a true virtual environment without
considering physical network configuration.
NVO3 allows individual tenant virtual networks to use their own
address space and isolates the space from the network infrastructure.
The approach not only segregates the traffic from multi tenants on a
common infrastructure but also makes VM placement and move easier.
DC applications are about providing virtual processing/storage,
applications, and networking in a secured and virtualized manner, in
which the NV03 is just a portion of an application. NVO3 decouples
the applications and DC network infrastructure configuration.
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NVO3's underlying network provides the tunneling between NVEs so
that two NVEs appear as one hop to each other. Many tunneling
technologies can serve this function. The tunneling may in turn be
tunneled over other intermediate tunnels over the Internet or other
WANs. It is also possible that intra DC and inter DC tunnels are
stitched together to form an end-to-end tunnel between two NVEs.
A DC virtual network may be accessed via an external network in a
secure way. Many existing technologies can achieve this.
The key requirements for NVO3 are 1) traffic segregation; 2)
supporting a large scale number of virtual networks in a common
infrastructure; 3) supporting highly distributed virtual network
with sparse memberships 3) VM mobility 4) auto or easy to construct
a NVE and its associated TES; 5) Security 6) NVO3 Management
[NVO3PRBM].
8. Security Considerations
Security is a concern. DC operators need to provide a tenant a
secured virtual network, which means the tenant traffic isolated
from other tenant's and non-tenant VMs not placed into the tenant
virtual network; they also need to prevent DC underlying network
from any tenant application attacking through the tenant virtual
network or one tenant application attacking another tenant
application via DC networks. For example, a tenant application
attempts to generate a large volume of traffic to overload DC
underlying network. The NVO3 solution has to address these issues.
9. IANA Considerations
This document does not request any action from IANA.
10. Acknowledgements
Authors like to thank Sue Hares, Young Lee, David Black, Pedro
Marques, Mike McBride, David McDysan, and Randy Bush for the review,
comments, and suggestions.
11. References
11.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997
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[RFC4364] Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, February 2006.
[IEEE 802.1ag] "Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks - Amendment 5:
Connectivity Fault Management", December 2007.
[ITU-T G.8013/Y.1731] OAM Functions and Mechanisms for Ethernet
based Networks, 2011.
[ITU-T Y.1564] "Ethernet service activation test methodology", 2011.
[RFC4378] Allan, D., Nadeau, T., "A Framework for Multi-Protocol
Label Switching (MPLS) Operations and Management (OAM)",
RFC4378, February 2006
[RFC4301] Kent, S., "Security Architecture for the Internet
Protocol", rfc4301, December 2005
[RFC4664] Andersson, L., "Framework for Layer 2 Virtual Private
Networks (L2VPNs)", rfc4664, September 2006
[RFC4797] Rekhter, Y., etc, "Use of Provider Edge to Provider Edge
(PE-PE) Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) or IP in
BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks", RFC4797, January
2007
[RFC5641] McGill, N., "Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Version 3 (L2TPv3)
Extended Circuit Status Values", rfc5641, April 2009.
[RFC5880] Katz, D. and Ward, D., "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
(BFD)", rfc5880, June 2010.
11.2. Informative References
[ESYS] Marques,P., "End-System support for BGP-signaled IP/VPNs",
draft-marques-l3vpn-end-system-07, August 2012
[NVGRE] Sridharan, M., "NVGRE: Network Virtualization using Generic
Routing Encapsulation", draft-sridharan-virtualization-
nvgre-01, July 2012
[NVO3PRBM] Narten, T., etc "Problem Statement: Overlays for Network
Virtualization", draft-narten-nvo3-overlay-problem-
statement-04, August 2012
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[NVO3FRWK] Lasserre, M., Motin, T., and etc, "Framework for DC
Network Virtualization", draft-lasserre-nvo3-framework-03,
July 2012
[VDP] "IEEE P802.1Qbg Edge Virtual Bridging".
[VMWARE] VMware, "vCenter", http://www.vmware.com
[VRF-LITE] Cisco, "Configuring VRF-lite", http://www.cisco.com
[VXLAN] Mahalingam,M., Dutt, D., etc "VXLAN: A Framework for
Overlaying Virtualized Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3
Networks", draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02.txt,
August 2012
Authors' Addresses
Lucy Yong
Huawei Technologies,
4320 Legacy Dr.
Plano, Tx75025 US
Phone: +1-469-277-5837
Email: lucy.yong@huawei.com
Mehmet Toy
Comcast
1800 Bishops Gate Blvd.,
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
Phone : +1-856-792-2801
E-mail : mehmet_toy@cable.comcast.com
Aldrin Isaac
Bloomberg
E-mail: aldrin.isaac@gmail.com
Vishwas Manral
Hewlett-Packard Corp.
191111 Pruneridge Ave.
Cupertino, CA 95014
Phone: 408-447-1497
Email: vishwas.manral@hp.com
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Linda Dunbar
Huawei Technologies,
4320 Legacy Dr.
Plano, Tx75025 US
Phone: +1-469-277-5840
Email: linda.dunbar@huawei.com
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