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====== VL2: Paper Notes ====== The pdf can be found [[http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1897877&type=pdf&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=16657217&CFTOKEN=91943640|here]]. * protocol design goals: - uniform high capacity (max rate only limited by iface cards) - performance isolation (no service-service interference) - layer-2 semantics (all servers for a service appear on single LAN) * network config: * Clos topology * Valiant Load Balancing [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.103.8263|18]], [[http://tiny-tera.stanford.edu/~nickm/papers/HotNetsIII.pdf|23]] **BibTex** <code> @article{Greenberg:2011:VSF:1897852.1897877, author = {Greenberg, Albert and Hamilton, James R. and Jain, Navendu and Kandula, Srikanth and Kim, Changhoon and Lahiri, Parantap and Maltz, David A. and Patel, Parveen and Sengupta, Sudipta}, title = {VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network}, journal = {Commun. ACM}, issue_date = {March 2011}, volume = {54}, issue = {3}, month = {March}, year = {2011}, issn = {0001-0782}, pages = {95--104}, numpages = {10}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1897852.1897877}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1897852.1897877}, acmid = {1897877}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, } </code>
