Field Notes
A Direct Link Is Not a Network - Point-to-point 25, 40 or 100 GbE can be excellent for migration, replication and storage traffic, but only if we treat it as a deliberate failure domain rather than a shortcut.
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There is something very attractive about connecting two virtualization hosts directly with a pair of high-speed network interfaces.
No switch. No spanning tree. No intermediate fabric. No uplink contention. Just a cable between two machines and a large amount of bandwidth available for migration,...