By: Andrew Storrs
While I agree that the days where you should be installing a dozen NICs in your servers are behind us, I don’t think that’s solely because 10GB Ethernet has removed most of the bandwidth constraints we...
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Andrew, thanks for your comment. You’re right in that we do need to ensure that one type of traffic doesn’t clobber another type, but we already have QoS mechanisms in place to do that (NetIOC in...
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By: Dmitri Kalintsev
Scott, My take on why do we prefer LLM is because it is easier to enforce separation / prioritisation on a “virtual link” level than it is on a “traffic type within a converged pipe” level. With former...
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Dmitri, thanks for your comment. All opinions are welcome! I can see your point, but it seems to me that there are/should be easier ways of handling this problem than LLM. It’s almost as if we are...
View ArticleBy: Robert Juric
I’m not completely familiar with LLM, but in this new push to secure multi-tenancy, it looks like LLM would actually be a step forward in the simplification of virtual networking. If you wanted to run...
View ArticleBy: EtherealMind
I think it’s overly simplistic to redact the problem to bandwidth. Extra bandwidth helps, but the underlying problem from my point of view, has been the lack of team integration between server /...
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Greg, thanks for your detailed comment. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. So, if I had to boil down your response (sorry!), would it be that LLM is a mechanism that helps address the...
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I think LLM has arrived as a way to help with the automation of server/networking convergence. But I think it’s important to remember it’s name-sake “Link Multiplexing” I think a big driving force is...
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Robert, let’s say that we believe LLM to be a valid solution to the “shared-but-separate” networks (seems like a reasonable conclusion). How do we handle the “shared-but-separate” requirement upstream?...
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Scott, I would agree with your summary. Even though 802.1Qbg/Qbh started about six/seven years ago, it’s clear that networking needed to become more dynamic and exchange status and configuration with...
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