The invention particularly relates to a
hybrid overlay communication method for a
data center network. According to the
hybrid overlay communication method for the
data center network, a vSwitch hostand EVPN
network element equipment based on different implementation
modes are managed to an SDN controller through
OpenFlow; the SDN controller uses an OVSDB management protocol to issue a configuration and
control flow table to the vSwitch host through Rest and RPC
modes, and uses a
NetConf protocol to control interface configuration and a
network strategy on an EVPN
network element; the
underlay network publishes a management IP of an EVPN
network element to a
data link by using an OSPF protocol, and connects a vSwich host and the EVPN network element through a routing switch, thereby realizing two-layer
interconnection between devices, and realizing fusion of different types of data centers from a
control layer and a data layer. According to the
hybrid overlay communication method forthe
data center network, the fusion of different network architectures on the same platform is solved, the expandability and
extensibility of the network are improved, the management cost is reduced,and the
network communication quality is greatly improved.