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Crossbow Documentation

This page contains links to different information about Project Crossbow. The links are grouped according to the type of information contained in their respective documents. Additional links will be provided as documentation becomes available.

Documentation Links

Papers Crossbow Technical Paper - Sunay Tripathi, Kais Belgaied, Nicolas Droux	Component Overviews and Design Documents Crossbow Overview Document - Sunay Tripathi Crossbow Architectural Document - Sunay Tripathi Crossbow MAC Virtualization Architecture - Nicolas Droux Data Path Design - Sunay Tripathi Hardware Resources Management and Virtualized Driver API - Kais Belgaied & Roamer Lu IP Instances Internal Design Document - Erik Nordmark IP Instances Overview and Usage - Erik Nordmark Virtual Switching in Solaris - Nicolas Droux VLANs as VNICs - Shrikrishna Khare
Presentations Crossbow: Network Virtualization and Resource Partitioning - Sunay Tripathi Crossbow in 2008 SunLabs Open House - Sunay Tripathi Crossbow: Network Virtualization in OpenSolaris (Portuguese translation) - Ricardo Severo IP Instances - Network Virtualization Meets Zones - Erik Nordmark Network Virtualization and Bandwidth Partitioning - Nicolas Droux	How To's, Tutorials, and Use Cases Getting Started With Crossbow Technology or Network Virtualization - Nagendra Nagarajayya Crossbow Demo/Workshop/Learning Module - Sunay Tripathi Getting Started Hands-on Steps for Using Key Features of Crossbow Private Virtual Networks for Solaris xVM and Zones with Crossbow Use Cases for Network Virtualization and Resource Control
Articles Network Virtualization (Wikipedia) OpenSolaris Network Virtualization and Resource Control (Wikipedia) Pulling Back The Curtain At Sun Labs (InformationWeek, April 27, 2007) Network Virtualization - Enter Project Crossbow (InfoWorld, June 11, 2006) Sun working on network virtualization for Solaris 10 (Virtualization.info, June 9, 2006) NICed and sliced (The Register, June 6, 2006)	Administration Guides and Other Books System Administration Guide: Network Interfaces and Network Virtualization Planning for Network Virtualization and Resource Control Configuring Virtual Networks Monitoring Virtual Networks and Resource Controls Configuring Resource Control and Bandwidth Management Reference Manuals