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Datacenter Consolidation
If you are planning a datacenter consolidation… You need Ipanema!
If you are planning datacenter consolidation… You need Ipanema!
Your company has decided to simplify the management of key business applications by consolidating its distributed servers. Server consolidation brings a lot of benefits, including a dramatic reduction of management costs. However, consolidating servers means that end-users who are accessing applications from the LAN today will in the future access them from the WAN. They will face severe performance degradations caused by higher network delay and decreased bandwidth.
There are three key bottlenecks you should be aware of that can cause application performance degradations:
- The bandwidth bottleneck: the performance of many (but not all) applications is related to the available bandwidth. Higher bandwidth equates to lower application response time.
- The TCP bottleneck: design limitations mean that TCP is not able to make use of all available network resources.
- The application protocol bottleneck: many applications are not designed for the WAN; they are “chatty”, meaning that the application protocol relies on too high a ratio of protocol exchanges when transmitting data. As network delay increases, their performance degrades significantly.
Bear in mind, however, that these bottlenecks can be addressed in different ways. All application protocol bottlenecks without exception can be removed by updating the application design to take into account WAN-style network delays. Microsoft, for example, has been doing for many years. Exchange 2003 combined with Outlook 2003 cache mode exhibits major performance improvements over its predecessors when used over the WAN. CIFS, a protocol known for its poor WAN performance, has been completely redesigned to work over the WAN as part of the Windows Vista and Server 2008 operating system releases.
Ipanema addresses these 3 key application performance bottlenecks with its integrated acceleration features, mitigating the low–bandwidth, higher-latency WAN characteristics when compared with the LAN.
With Ipanema, the WAN will not be a problem when implementing the fundamental, compelling IT transformation that datacenter consolidation represents.
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