$199.00
Data Center Network Architecture
Presenter: Jack Stackhouse
Duration: 3hrs 43min
Description: Looking three to five years out, data centers will experience rapid evolution to accommodate new technologies and requirements. Data and storage area networks will converge onto the same switch offering a la carte services that combine services (e.g., iSCSI and LAN traffic over the wire), or allow them to remain separate as ships in the night (FCOE). High-speed computing will require non-blocking switches. The cost for power will continue to rise. Heat is an issue as more equipment is packed tighter and tighter – Green is in, at a minimum, to save OpEx funds in a challenging economy.
User, clients, partners and customers expect highly available, highly reliable applications and services requiring storage, server and network virtualization that will be complex to deploy, support and maintain. The competition will be doing this, like it or not, will you be able to keep up to survive?
What You Will Learn:
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet to the server w/ non-blocking lossless “integrated fabric” switches
- SAN protocols and their network impact
- Top-of-rack and end-of-rack deployment plans
- CX4 (power, distance, cost, low latency) or CAT6a (distance, flexibility, longevity) wiring?
- Dual-homing with Layer 3 load-balancing or Layer 2 switching
- Network, server, and storage virtualization
- Routing on the server: Are we back to combined computer/router products?
$199.00
