Since there aren’t that many articles out there on the subject, I figured I’d share what I was able to find.
I was trying to prepare for a meeting a few weeks back on the topic of Hadoop; its impact on the network was supposed to be a large part of the conversation. Needless to say, it wasn’t, but during the preparation, I was looking for material specific to building and designing networks specific for Hadoop environments.
Since there aren’t that many articles out there on the subject, I figured I’d share what I was able to find.
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Pica8
Today, the industry officially welcomed another start up to the SDN world – Pica8. I’ve been following these guys for a while as they posted on their blog and before their merger with Pronto. At one point over a year ago, I even inquired about purchasing a Pronto Switch, but never pulled the trigger. Check out the original Pronto Systems web site here for more background and history on their solution, products, and testing. Pica8 + Open vSwitch In my last blog, I talked about Cisco’s Nexus 1000V, VMware’s VSS/VDS, and the Open vSwitch (OVS) as the three most deployed solutions for L2 virtual networking in the hypervisor. One interesting fact here is that Open vSwitch can actually run as the control stack on a hardware switch as well. Interesting? Definitely – considering the majority of conversations around SDN have focused around data center network virtualization. What’s the foundation of the next generation data center network, i.e. this thing some call the software defined virtual data center network? Many companies have recently re-branded their products and jumped on the Software Defined Networking (SDN) bandwagon in some way, shape, or form, and for good reason. It has the potential to truly change networking as we know it today. IDC has even stated SDN could be a $2B market by 2016.
Let’s forget about all of this recent SDN washing and go back to virtual networking basics. Most of us by now know what a software switch is. It is also known as a vswitch or virtual switch. This is arguably the most critical piece of real estate in the next generation data center network. So, who owns this property? |
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