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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
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Spine Cluster 1
TOR or Leaf Switch
L2
1GbE or 10GbE
Servers or
Storage Nodes
vSwitch
Server Rack 1
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.
Non-Blocking Distributed Spine Network
OSFP/BGP
ECMP
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vSwitch
Server Rack n
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Data Center Deployment
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Spine Cluster x
Core Router Racks
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