Chapter 1
| Switch Description
Data Center Deployment
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Data Center Deployment
The switch is designed for high-availability data center environments with a high
port density. The switch includes redundant, hot-swappable, load-sharing AC PSUs,
a hot-swappable fan tray, and port-to-power and power-to-port airflow direction
options. Meeting the network scaling requirements of enterprise and cloud data
centers, the switch can be deployed as a top-of-rack switch or as part of a
distributed spine network, providing full line-rate switching at Layer 2 or Layer 3
across all ports.
Figure 3: Cloud Data Center Deployment
In many data center configurations, Ethernet connections link servers and data
networks, and Fibre Channel connections link servers to storage networks. This
switch enables the creation of a converged network, which employs lossless
Ethernet connections between FCOE storage, servers, and other data network
switches.
TOR or Leaf Switch
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1GbE or 10GbE
Servers or
Storage Nodes
Server Rack 1
Non-Blocking Distributed Spine Network
Spine Cluster 1
Spine Cluster x
Server Rack n
Core Router Racks
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L2
OSFP/BGP
ECMP
vSwitch
vSwitch
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