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Figure 9. Re-allocation of server resources within the POD Figure 10. Multiple VLANs per trunk
As enterprise data centers move through consolidation General discussion of Data Center Consolidation and
Virtualization:
phases toward next generation architectures that www.force10networks.com/products/pdf/wp_datacenter_con-
increasingly leverage virtualization technologies, virt.pdf
the importance of very high performance Ethernet E-Series Reliability and Resiliency:
switch/routers will continue to grow. Switch/routers www.force10networks.com/products/highavail.asp
with ultra high capacity coupled with ultra high Next Generation Terabit Switch/Routers:
reliability/resiliency contribute significantly to the www.force10networks.com/products/nextgenterabit.asp
simplicity and attractive TCO of the virtual data High Performance Network Security (IPS):
center. In particular, the E-Series offers a number www.force10networks.com/products/hp_network_security.asp
of advantages for this emerging architecture: iSCSI over 10 GbE:
www.force10networks.com/products/iSCSI_10GE.asp
• Smallest footprint per GbE port or per 10 GbE port VMware Infrastructure 3 Documentation:
due to highest port densities www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vi_pubs.html
• Ultra-high power efficiency requiring only 4.7
watts per GbE port, simplifying high density
configurations and minimizing the growing costs
of power and cooling
• Ample aggregate bandwidth to support unification
of aggregation and access layers of the data center
network plus unification of data and storage fabrics
• System architecture providing a future-proof
migration path to the next generation of Ethernet
consolidation/virtualization/unification at 100 Gbps
• Unparalleled system reliability and resiliency featuring:
– multi-processor control plane
– control plane and switching fabric redundancy
– modular switch/router operating system (OS)
supporting hitless software updates and restarts
A high performance 10 GbE switched data center
infrastructure provides the ideal complement for local
and global resource virtualization. The combination
of these fundamental technologies as described in
this guide provides the basic SOA-enabled modular
infrastructure needed to fully support the next wave of
SOA application development where an application’s
component services may be transparently distributed
throughout the enterprise data center or even among
data centers.
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