Does 10GE Hadoop make any sense? And if so, how might you design the cluster? Let’s discuss some rationale for and against 10gig Hadoop and then look at some potential network setups for 10G clusters. If you need a quick into or refresher, read this post on the basics of Hadoop clusters and the network, [...]
Hadoop network design challenge
November 5, 2011 By 31 Comments
I had a bit of fun recently working on a hypothetical network design for a large scale Hadoop implementation. A friend of mine mentioned he was responding to a challenging RFP, and when I asked him more about it out of curiosity he sent me these requirements: (4) Containers In each Container: (25) Racks (64) [...]
Routing over Nexus 7000 vPC peer-link? Yes and No.
December 16, 2010 By 48 Comments
Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V design diagram with Palo adapter
August 11, 2009 By 44 Comments
This is a follow-up and enhancement of a previous design diagram in which I showed Cisco UCS running the standard VMware vSwitch. In this post I am once again showing Cisco UCS utilizing the Cisco (Palo) virtualized adapter with an implementation of VMware vSphere 4.0, however in this design we are running ESXi and the [...]
Cisco UCS and VMWare vSwitch design with Cisco 10GE Virtual Adapter
July 5, 2009 By 29 Comments
This diagram is a sample design of Cisco UCS running vSphere 4.0 utilizing the VMWare vSwitch and Cisco’s virtualization mezzanine adapter. The Cisco adapter is a dual port 10GE Converged Network Adapter supporting Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Network Interface Virtualization (NIV). The Cisco adapter is “virtual” in the sense that this single physical [...]
Top of Rack vs End of Row Data Center Designs
April 5, 2009 By 27 Comments
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