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
40G port density and switching capacity. The switch includes redundant, hot-
swappable, load-sharing AC PSUs, and a hot-swappable multiple-fan fan trays
where the direction of the cooling airflow can be set to either port-to-power or
power-to-port 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 supersedes Fibre
Channel and 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