Extreme Networks Pitches Blueprint for Migrating Virtual Datacenters
Extreme Networks Pitches Blueprint for Migrating Virtual Datacenters
Posted 12/04/2009 at 6:02am
| by Paul Lilly
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During the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, Extreme Networks unveiled a blueprint for migrating datacenters from the physical world to virtualization, and eventually to cloud computing. What's interesting about Extreme Network's evolution strategy is that it tries to eliminate virtual switching at the server level, which is the exact opposite approach of Cisco.
According to Gordon Stitt, Extreme chairman and co-founder, the blueprint is intended to assist in evolving datacenters to cloud computing "without forcing certain technologies or operating methodologies," which can be taken as a knock against Cisco's Data Center 3.0 strategy, Froce10 Networks' Virtualization Framework, parts of Juniper's Stratus project, and architectures pitched by Brocade, HP, and other datacenter switching competitors, Infoworld.com reports.
Piqued your interested? Download the 24-page blueprint in PDF form here.
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the_river
December 04, 2009 at 10:39am
Recently got a new set of two 24-port switches in with 10GbE uplink ports on them for our virtualization project. The stacking and configuration was VERY easy to understand and the system seems to have the processing power to handle heavy traffic, including Jumbo Frames. Using VMware vSphere, our servers take about 10 minutes to install Server 2008 from scratch through ISOs stored on our SAN. Then, any installations are speedy, with no throughput bottlenecks. A pleasing surprise for iSCSI.
Dell's own SAN engineer said to use them over PowerConnects, since the internal processing power is superior! Imagine that!
Highly recommend the brand as a cheaper alternative to Cisco switches.
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