[ovirt-users] Re: [ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt HCI point-to-point interconnection

2018-06-29 Thread Yaniv Kaul
__________ > Da: Alex K > Inviato: giovedì 28 giugno 2018 21:34 > A: Stefano Zappa > Cc: Yaniv Kaul; devel; users@ovirt.org > Oggetto: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: [ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt HCI point-to-point > interconnection > > Hi, > > Network virtualization is already

[ovirt-users] Re: [ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt HCI point-to-point interconnection

2018-06-29 Thread Stefano Zappa
:34 A: Stefano Zappa Cc: Yaniv Kaul; devel; users@ovirt.org Oggetto: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: [ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt HCI point-to-point interconnection Hi, Network virtualization is already here and widely used. I am still not sure what is the gain of this approach. You can do the same with VxLANs

[ovirt-users] Re: [ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt HCI point-to-point interconnection

2018-06-28 Thread Alex K
Hi, Network virtualization is already here and widely used. I am still not sure what is the gain of this approach. You can do the same with VxLANs or Geneve. And how do you scale this? Is it only for 3 node clusters? Alex On Thu, Jun 28, 2018, 11:47 Stefano Zappa wrote: > Hi Yaniv, > no, the f

[ovirt-users] Re: [ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt HCI point-to-point interconnection

2018-06-28 Thread Stefano Zappa
Hi Yaniv, no, the final purpose is not to save a couple of ports. The benefit is the trend to convergence and consolidation of the networking, as already done for the storage. The external interconnection is a critical element of the HCI solution, a configuration without switches would give more

[ovirt-users] Re: [ovirt-devel] Re: oVirt HCI point-to-point interconnection

2018-06-27 Thread Yaniv Kaul
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Stefano Zappa wrote: > The final purpose is strictly targeted to your HCI solution with 3-node > gluster replication. > Can you explain to me what the benefit is? You need a switch anyway (for uplink), so the 'cost saving' is that you can use a 4 port (?) switch