VMS: Load Balancing Based on the Virtual Switch Layer in Datacenter Networks

There have been many load balancing solutions for datacenter networks. Almost all of them require modifications to the network fabric or/and virtual machines. Recently, the virtual switch layer becomes an ideal location for datacenter operators to deal with the load balancing problem. In this paper, we propose Virtual Multi-channel Scatter (VMS), a packet-level load balancing design in the virtual...