Jason Nash | VTUG Fall Forward 2014
Jason Nash, Varrow, at VTUG Fall Forward (2014) with Stu Miniman @theCUBE #FallForward #NEVTUG Banic, Vice President of Marketing for HP’s networking division, joined Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE.com’s John Furrier live inside theCube from the floor of VMworld 2011 to discuss the role of networking in virtualized environments. The discussion was part of the Virtual Networking Spotlight sponsored by HP. Banic pointed out that more than half of VMware deployments run on HP servers. HP as such is focusing much of its attention on optimizing on vMotion. “vMotion is becoming the new killer app in the data center,” Banic said. “What we’ve found is that vMotion can actually run twice as fast and in the event of a network failure our innovations actually recover 500x faster (with HP technology) than traditional networking protocols like spanning tree.” To flatten the network, HP is relying on its Flex Fabric offering. Banic compared current networking routes to a recent direct flight he took from San Francisco to Japan. The trip didn’t require him to stop in Los Angles, then Hawaii, then Bangkok first. If it did, “It would be very slow and long and it would be a horrible user experience,” Banic said. “Well, that’s what’s happening in today’s data centers. Legacy hierarchical, multi-tiered data centers are forcing traffic between servers to take that kind of path. What we really want for better performance and a better user experience is that direct flight.”