GIROFLOW: Openflow virtualized infrastructure management tool

FlowVisor is a special purpose controller inside OpenFlow architecture witch allows capacities of network devices to be divided by creating silces. This enables multiple virtual networks to run on the same physical infrastructure, based on the deployment of rules for routing the packets together with the OpenFlow controllers and datapaths. However, FlowVisor has limitations in its architecture related to the absence of a specific model for managing the silces as well as a more friendly user interface. Thus, taking into account the limitations mentioned, this paper presents a tool to complement the FlowVisor called GiroFlow. This tool presents a model for management of the silces focusing on the properties of the application running on the controller. And it also uses automated interfaces with FlowVisor and network controllers to create and adjust the silces and policies inside a network managed by FlowVisor.