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Not knowing anything about their infrastructure Id guess that they're using vlan tags for customer isolation. They'd want customer instances spread among racks,
by donavanm 12y ago
Not knowing anything about their infrastructure Id guess that they're using vlan tags for customer isolation. They'd want customer instances spread among racks, based on instance type etc. Going to in house/vxlan/nvgre encap certainly looks better suited, but still has a high bar to entry.
- contingencies 12y agoYou guys sound like you know a lot about these types of networking protocols. Can you recommend a decent summary of currently available approaches to relatively dynamic private link layer network topology provision suitable for cross-cabinet (or even cross-site) virtualized infrastructures and their drawbacks? For instance, I've been seeing Open vSwitch gaining popularity.