Data Center Ethernet (or DCB or CEE, depending on who you are) is a hot story these days and it’s no wonder that misconceptions galore. However, when I hear several CCIEs I highly respect talk about “Priority Flow Control can be used to stop all th…
Long-distance vMotion and the traffic trombone
October 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Multihop FCoE 101
October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Traveling East-West Might Get A Little Easier: Highlights from the TRILL RFC5556
October 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
100% Virtualised? Let’s try for 99%
December 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A lot of posts and talks from people involved in VMware and especially when we start talking about the Private Cloud talk about 100% virtualised data centres. And there’s always the nay-sayers like me who point out that there are niche applications which currently can’t be virtualised. These include applications which run specialist hardware and applications which have real-time requirements; in my world of Broadcast Media, these are often one and the same.
FAST: Features, Drawbacks, Applications and some Questions
December 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
FAST (FULLY AUTOMATED STORAGE TIERING). FAST made a debut in the storage market yesterday (12/08/09). Finally after the market buzz we got a preview of the product in terms of its features, functionality, characteristics, possible shortcomings and use cases. This blog post focuses on the features, the drawbacks and some applications around FAST. By no means is this a comprehensive or an exhaustive list of the above.