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In-DC traffic amount between racks

The bigger the amounts of data-flow between hardware devices, the bigger of a problem it tends to be. This traffic (and also In-DC traffic between silos, if larger DC is under consideration), is the one that measures the service system (Warren) efficiency. It's a two-fold problem, first the traffic that is generated by the clients, secondly the one that is generated by Warren as a management system. The goal of Warren is to reallocate resources to minimize in-DC traffic and in rare cases, it can, by doing so, destabilize the network flow for a short period of time. Management flow must always take precedence when client flow is causing problems, even if it decreases client throughput further. Because it’s purpose is to restore the previous state, or at least maximize the efficiency with the current limited amount of available resources.

Existing SDN solution

Requirements in storage domain

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