Fountainhead

JUNE 2, 2009

The instantiation of these observations was a product that put almost all of the datacenter on "autopilot" -- Servers, VMs, switches, load-balancers, even server power controllers and power strips. Does it sound like Amazons recent CloudWatch, Auto-Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing announcement? but growing.

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Data Center Load Balancer Virtualization Analysis 100

Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

They span management of both physical and virtual software, servers, I/O, networking, etc. -- as well as higher-level functions such as High-Availability and Disaster Recovery. The 13 different functions are mapped onto the data center "stack" at right. The 13th function if provided via the Dell Management Console.)

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Disaster Recovery Load Balancer Dell Data Center 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The next step is to define in software the converged network, its switching, and even network devices such as load balancers. Provisioning of the network, VLANs, IP load balancing, etc. 2) Disaster Recovery: we can re-constitute an environment of server profiles, including all of their networking, ports, addresses, etc.,

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

JUNE 7, 2010

And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. And, if you can now logically re-define server and infrastructure profiles, you can also create simplified Disaster recovery tools too. Now: What’s the impact on costs? Find me at oestreichk at gee mail dot com.

Virtualization 113

Virtualization Data Center Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Disaster Recovery – expanding on the example above, if an entire domain of servers fails, the entire group of server IO states, networking states, etc. This provides a ‘universal’ style of failover that doesn’t require clustering software. IOV is agnostic to the workload!

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), and storage connectivity (LUN mapping, switch control) are all abstracted and defined/configured in software.

Data Center 100

Data Center Virtualization Storage Network 100