What is SDN Controller?
An SDN controller is used to control network devices such
as switches. You can add an external SDN controller to the Cloud and use the
controller to control external switches and other network devices. By
adding an SDN controller, you can take over SDN networks of hardware switches to reduce
network latencies and improve VXLAN network performances.
- Before you can add an SDN controller to the Cloud, plan for management networks in advance, and complete the basic configurations of the SDN controller.
- Currently, the Cloud supports only H3C VCFC SDN controllers.
Note: If you use
VCFC to configure hardware SDN, configure the mapping between VLAN and VXLAN
on VCFC in advance.