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This article is part of the November 2010 Vol. 1, No. 1 issue of Building the infrastructure to enable flat Data Center network architecture
By Ivan Pepelnjak, Fast Packet Blogger When I started exploring storage networking technologies from a networking engineer's perspective, I stumbled across ATA over Ethernet (ATAoE) – or ATA command set transported directly within Ethernet frames. The approach seemed similar to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) – only with even less industry acceptance. As I abhor protocol designers who are shortsighted enough to purposely limit themselves to a single LAN domain, I never looked deeper into the technology until I stumbled across an article in The Register praising the virtues of ATAoE. Check out Ivan's blog: Cisco IOSHints Long distance vMotion and the traffic trombone vMotion: An elephant in the data center room DCB and TRILL have nothing in common Further research quickly confirmed that ATAoE is limited primarily to a single vendor (Coraid) and the Wikipedia article on ATAoE revealed an "amazing" fact: "AoE specification is 12 pages compared with iSCSI's 257 pages." While I never considered the length of protocol specification to be an indication of its ... Access >>>
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ATA over Ethernet for converged data center networks? No way
ATA over Ethernet is pitched as a solution for converged data center networks, but ATAoE has a host of technology shortcomings, including a lack of packet loss recovery and shaky security, according to Fast Packet blogger Ivan Pepelnjak. So why bother?
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Virtual cluster switching: Finding management in a flat network
by Michael Brandenburg, Technical Editor
Using virtual cluster switching, the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging manages dozens of switches as one switch in a flat Layer 2 network for high-performance computing.
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ATA over Ethernet for converged data center networks? No way
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Navigating the road to flatter, converged data center networks
by Shamus McGillicuddy, News Editor
IT professionals explore the process of building converged data center networks based on expectations of vendors’ promises, as well as their reservations, the benefits and technicalities of this technology.
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Navigating the road to flatter, converged data center networks
by Shamus McGillicuddy, News Editor
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Virtualization security plan: Replacing physical separation
by Rivka Gewirtz Little, Senior Site Editor
The New Mexico Human Services Department implemented a virtualization security plan that ensures security of core applications running on virtual machines.
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Virtualization security plan: Replacing physical separation
by Rivka Gewirtz Little, Senior Site Editor
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