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02-05-2010 09:55 AM
02-05-2010 09:55 AM
Estimates for data center network bandwidth usage?
Paulo had a question:
When we don’t have any data concerning the current Data Center network usage, what kind of reasonable assumptions must be defined ? Does anyone have some kind of report ( or at least tips ) regarding the typical bandwidth consumption on Physical and Virtual Machines so we can design the network of a medium size Data Center ( < 1000 servers ) ?
Erik replied:
This is what I reference / suggested when planning a network for virtualized systems without any network data.
Source: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01608922/c01608922.pdf page 3, table 1
Network |
Data Traffic |
Bandwidth |
Communication - Non performance critical IP-based communication, primary client server communication (public network). |
Email, file sharing, web services, streaming media, SAP GUI |
1 Gb1 |
Management –Performance critical IP-based communication, primary administrative and server management communication. |
Console OS to manage physical server and/or virtual machines, and virtual machine migration (such as VMotion) |
2 Gb |
Computing – Inter-Process Communication (IPC) like SAP application server to SAP database or central instance communication (private network) |
Cluster communications, Virtual machine (VM) or SAP application server traffic (production) |
4 Gb |
Storage – All data communication to and from storage systems |
NAS, iSCSI or backup traffic |
2 – 4 Gb |
Anyone else have a good rule of thumb?
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