When building a fabric for a cluster of servers and storage in the data center, how should you architect the network? There are several ways to approach this. The architecture you choose probably depends on your preconceived notions of what a network should look like and addressing the things that you care about. For example, [...]
On optimizing traffic for network virtualization
December 22, 2011 By 13 Comments
The era of network virtualization and software overlays is coming (read: VXLAN, OpenFlow, SDN, etc.) and with it the role of the physical network and what we define as “the network”, is all about to change. How does this change the way application flows map to traffic on the network and servers? How does this change [...]
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