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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

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unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). connected to differing forms of storage (not to mention storage tiering, backup etc.) location of app images and VMs), network (including load balancing and. QoS), and storage (connectivity, tiering, caching). Balancing these.

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Thinking Out Loud: Targeting the Real Problem

Scott Lowe

The real problem is the configuration and management of network policy: stuff like QoS, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VRFs, firewalls, load balancing, etc. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Thinking Out Loud: HP Flex-10 Design Considerations.

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Fountainhead: HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments

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HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

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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.

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Fountainhead: IO Virtualization: The ?Hypervisor? for Your.

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In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. HP VirtualConnect ). can be recovered onto another domain (assuming shared/replicated storage). Converged Networking Adapters (e.g. Qlogic , Emulex ). Putting IOV in Perspective.

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Fountainhead: An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box

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Thats essentially the idea behind the " Datacenter-in-a-Box :" Most common config uration: Blades + Networking + SAN Storage Most useful tools to manage VMs + physical servers + network + I/O + SW provisioning + workload automation + high availability Thats what Egeneras done with Dell.

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Introduction to Networking: Part 2, A Few More Basics

Scott Lowe

Switches generally support a variety of load balancing mechanisms, including source-destination MAC addresses, source-destination IP addresses, and sometimes even layer 4 (TCP/UDP) source-destination ports. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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