Chapter 5. Data Center Design with Hypervisors

The goal of this chapter is to describe the networking requirements and design considerations when using hypervisors in the data center.

Managing virtualized data centers poses several challenges to the network administrator, such as:

Image Because every server includes a networking component, the number of networking components is proportional to the number of servers.

Image There is little visibility of the traffic originated by virtual machines (VM) because often the switching is performed within the server ...

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