Fault Tolerance White Papers

4 white papers are tagged with: fault-tolerance


VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1855 Blade Server

The purpose of this study is to quantify the impact on typical VMware operations of having two network connections available for each ESX Server host running on a set of PowerEdge 1855 blades. The white paper, "Deployment of VMware ESX 2.5.1 Server Software on Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers" ...

A Performance Solution for Document Distribution: Enabling Real-Time Document Distribution for Global Enterprises

Web enabling applications has been a tremendous success for today's enterprises, offering enhanced user productivity, lower costs, and greater overall efficiencies. But the rush to the web has brought to light all new performance issues. At first, fixing these problems was a relatively simple ...
Source: F5

Using SCTP to Improve QoS and Network Fault Tolerance of DRE Systems

• IP based transport protocol originally designed for telephony signaling
• SCTP supports features found to be useful in TCP or UDP - Reliable data transfer (TCP) - Congestion control (TCP)- Message boundary conservation (UDP)- Path MTU discovery and message fragmentation (TCP)- Ordered ...

VMware Network I/O Control: Architecture, Performance and Best Practices

Network convergence using 10GbE technology provides enormous opportunities for IT administrators and architects to simplify the physical network infrastructure while improving performance. Administrators and architects need a simple and reliable way to enable prioritization of critical traffic over ...