{"id":273,"date":"2011-09-16T23:09:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T21:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exorientelux.biz\/cgi-bin\/weblog_basic\/index.php?p=273"},"modified":"2011-09-16T23:09:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T21:09:19","slug":"datacenter-network-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Datacenter Network Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funkschau.de\/\">Funkschau<\/a>  special edition &#8222;Datacenter 2011&#8220; features an article about *server access technologies* (network design) within datacenters. The author elaborates on pros\/cons of ToR vs EoR\/MoR designs. Having read a couple of papers about this topic, to me, Top-or-Rack (ToR) seemed to be de-facto industry standard. Apparently, this is not the case. <\/p>\n<p>Browsing the Web for some additional info I came across an excellent source on the overall topic (networks\/datacenters\/cloud computing\/etc). Check, for instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/bradhedlund.com\/2009\/04\/05\/top-of-rack-vs-end-of-row-data-center-designs\/\">ToR vs EoR<\/a> for a lengthy discussion on datacenter network design choices.<\/p>\n<p>Another good source on the same \/ a similar topic<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scottlowe.org\/\">blog.scottlowe.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Funkschau special edition &#8222;Datacenter 2011&#8220; features an article about *server access technologies* (network design) within datacenters. The author elaborates on pros\/cons of ToR vs EoR\/MoR designs. Having read a couple of papers about this topic, to me, Top-or-Rack (ToR) seemed to be de-facto industry standard. Apparently, this is not the case. Browsing the Web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[90,26],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","tag-cloud-computing","tag-datacenter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}