First Workshop on Data Center
Converged and Virtual Ethernet Switching (DC CAVES)
http://www.i-teletraffic.org/itc21/dc-caves-workshop/
September 14 2009, Paris, collocated with the
21st International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 21)
Overview
Several studies over the past few years have found that
enterprises are spending too much to manage the operational
aspects of the complex application environments they have deployed
over time. The recent economic downturn is placing additional
requirements to lower the capital expenses, while delivering more
computing, networking and storage capabilities. These operational
and capital demands are causing a significant shift in Data Center
(DC) infrastructure, from a traditional compute model, which has
lightly utilized servers using 1 Gbps network adapters to a new
virtual and converged compute model, which has highly utilized
servers using 10 Gbps Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) with many
Virtual Servers that attach to converged fabrics (iSCSI, Network
Attached Storage - NAS, or Fibre Channel over Ethernet - FCoE).
Network convergence and virtualization technologies associated
with this new model extend the IT skill set, which, if harnessed,
can allow the enterprise to reap significant savings. For
networking within the Data Center the potential value comes from:
lowering capital expenses through higher utilization (server,
storage and network), and converged fabrics; and lowering
operational expenses through automated and integrated management
that optimizes Data Center infrastructure. At the edge of the Data
Center (DC), virtual networking (e.g. MPLS, VPLS) as well as new
virtualization paradigms also offer tremendous savings associated
with combining networks, especially across wide-area networks
interconnected with costly WAN links.
Scope
Organized together with ITC 21, the first DC CAVES workshop is
intended to serve as a forum to present the latest work by
researchers and developers from both academia and industry. The
workshop focuses on the technologies that will be needed to meet
the demands of the new virtual and converged compute model
described above. For each of these technologies the workshop will
analyze the problem and solution alternatives.
The two major topics of interest are server virtualization
infrastructure and physical switch virtualization infrastructure.
Server virtualization infrastructure includes: layer-2/3/+
switching technologies performed within the server, such as:
Hypervisor Virtual Ethernet Switches, Server Input/Output
Virtualization and Virtual Appliances running in Server Virtual
Machines. Physical switch virtualization and convergence
infrastructure includes: layer-2/3/+ fabric virtualization
technologies, such as VLANs, MPLS, VPLS, Switch Stacking and
mechanisms that partition a single physical switch into multiple
virtual switches; and storage and Ethernet convergence
technologies, such as iSCSI, NAS, FCoE and FC over MPLS. Following
is additional areas of interest for this workshop:
* Server virtualization infrastructure
- Automation of virtual server network identity management
- Enhanced virtual server network access and traffic controls
- Networking technologies to enable virtual server migration
within an entire DC
- Networking technologies to enable virtual server migration
across DCs
- Security plane infrastructure virtualization
- Enhancements to switches used by virtualization
intermediaries (e.g. Hypervisors)
- Offloading of virtual switching to external fabrics
- Converged fabric reference services architectures
- Future directions
* Virtual & converged fabric infrastructure
- Overall network virtualization & performance
- Performance evaluation of converged iSCSI, NAS and
emerging FCoE fabrics
- Converged fabric security considerations
- Transport stack options converging Inter-Process
Communication (IPC) traffic
- Additional Ethernet Quality of Service enhancements
needed for converged environments
- Performance and fault event management for converged fabrics
- Converged fabric management infrastructure
- Converged fabric reference services architectures
- Future directions
Paper Submission
Submissions of technical papers, position papers, and case studies
relevant to the workshop are welcome. Submission implies the
willingness of at least one of the authors to present the paper
and register. Submission should include on the front page the
authors' name, affiliations, addresses, email addresses, and phone
numbers.
The full paper should not exceeding 8 pages in IEEE in two-column
10pt pdf or Postscript format, page-numbered and suitable for
printing on 8.5"x11" paper with at least 1 inch margin all around.
Please submit the full paper for consideration to this workshop to
Renato Recio (recio@us.ibm.com) by email. Accepted papers will be
made publicly accessible through the ITC website.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission May 18, 2009 (extended)
Notification of acceptance June 15, 2009
Camera ready papers July 20, 2009
Workshop date September 14, 2009
Organization
Program Chair: Renato Recio, IBM
Program Committee
Thierry Coupaye, Orange Labs, France
Uri Elzur, Broadcom Corporation, USA
Claus Gruber, Detecon Consulting, Germany
Michael Kagan, Mellanox Technologies, Israel
David Kahn, Sun Microsystems,USA
Andreas Kirstaedter, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Mike Krause, Hewlett-Packard Company, USA
Mallik Mahalingam, VMware, USA
Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Aki Nakao, University of Tokio, Japan
Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA
Joe Pelissier, Cisco Systems, USA
Ashley Saulsbury, Juniper, USA
Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria
Manoj Wadekar, QLogic, USA
Suresh Vobbilisetty, Brocade, USA
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