Migrating from Floodlight to HP SDN Controller

[chuck-tallac]

For those of us who have written applications for the Floodlight controller, is there any useful documentation or a cookbook for porting applications from Floodlight over to HP's SDN Controller?  The Java APIs for OpenFlow look similar, but they are not identical.

Or failing that, is there somebody on this board who has done this already, who might be able to provide some helpful hints etc.?

Thanks!

[sambati]

The HP SDN VAN Controller  presently does not have any documentation on it, but our Java API documentation (included in the SDK) should provide info on the controller and network service APIs, which are reasonably analogous to, and more comprehensive than, Floodlight controller APIs.

[chuck-tallac]

Understood. Just my opinion, but it might be helpful to have a short tutorial on migrating applications between controllers, simply because this issue of the northbound API's being similar, only different.

Today in the Java API domain, we have Beacon, which is close to Floodlight, and Beacon also being contained within OpenDaylight, and now the new HP SDN APIs, which are also probably close, but not precisely the same.

For example, something like:

• Here's how the HP SDN OpenFlow implementation is superior to Floodlight/Beacon/OpenDaylight
• Here's where they are basically the same (e.g. OFMatch, OFAction, IOFSwitch, IOFMessageListener, etc.)

That's just a suggestion though. Thanks for the reply!