Force 10 Building a network of cloud computing data centers

In the past, servers, storage, and networks can be managed separately because they can be viewed as relatively independent domains. In recent years, due to the large number of server virtualization applications, the construction of Dynamic Data center or cloud computing data Center has become the primary choice for enterprises, the integration of servers, storage and network is the trend.

But in the practical application, the virtualization technology in the storage and the server application is very widespread, the network as an important link, already obviously lags behind.

Virtualization requires network change

The traditional data center network architecture is divided into the access layer, the convergence layer and the core layer, the more the level, the more devices used, the delay will increase, of course, performance and efficiency will also be reduced. In the large-scale adoption of server virtualization technology in the next generation of data centers, data traffic is mainly concentrated in the local server communication, if you can reduce the network level, such as no need to go through the convergence layer switch, will significantly reduce the number of interactions between switches, and reduce latency. As long as the reduction of one layer, for the application of the Ascension will be huge. Force10 global chief marketing Director Arpit Joshipura said.

Because, after virtualization in a Dynamic Data center or cloud computing Datacenter, resources need to be dynamically increased, scaled, and moved according to the dynamic nature of the workload. For example, an overloaded application might need to be relocated to a different server with a larger CPU capacity. When this happens, the entire virtual environment also needs to be moved along, including storage connectivity, network connectivity and virtual local area network (VLAN) and port distribution configuration, which poses challenges to the network.

Therefore, "The use of new network technology and equipment, will greatly simplify the network architecture of Enterprise Data center, at the same time, the network flattening will also significantly improve performance, significantly simplify operational services, reduce costs," Arpit Joshipura said.

Network Automation Management

Networks are also part of cloud computing, and without fast, reliable, and flexible networks, you cannot optimize and optimize server allocations for applications and services two times.

FORCE10 Network Management interface software can combine a variety of virtual and physical servers into a single managed resource, and automatically and continuously optimize the allocation of this resource to specific applications. Force10 's Virtualview provides critical intelligence in the data Center for server and network configuration, usage, efficiency, and reliability, Virtualview generates a coherent, dynamically changing structure chart that shows what virtual devices in your environment The volume of traffic that is usually not visible.

In simplifying the network and improving performance, the FORCE10 dedicated resilient and scalable Gigabit Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet devices can reduce risk and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) while improving lifecycle management by reducing complexity, using fewer physical servers and switches. The FTOs (Force10 operating system) is a modular NetBSD based on Linux, which can generate granular bandwidth optimization and control by collecting real-time traffic statistics for each virtual device (VM) and end-user conversations.

At the same time, "in FORCE10 management software and devices, supporting standards-based management protocols such as SSH and Telnet, using industry-standard CLI or SNMP to automatically configure switch/router ports, and providing SLAs to critical applications by allocating VLANs or using QoS attributes to ensure proper network configuration Arpit Joshipura said.