I wanted to take a few minutes to point out the 17 different load balancing algorithms available when distributing traffic from a VMware vSphere ESX host to a network of clustered upstream switches. Normally I don’t write blogs on such short topics but this one has a little story behind it. This week I am [...]
Nexus 1000V’s 17 load balancing algorithms, dedicated to Nicholas Weaver at EMC
August 31, 2010 By 9 Comments
Cisco UCS intelligent QoS vs. HP Virtual Connect rate limiting
August 16, 2010 By 26 Comments
This article is a simple examination of the fundamental differences in how server bandwidth is handled between the Cisco UCS approach of QoS (quality of service), and the HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 / FlexFabric approach of Rate Limiting. I created two simple flash animations shown below to make the comparison. The animations above are each [...]
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