Data Center Deployment; Figure 3: Cloud Data Center Deployment - Edge-Core ECS5610-52S Installation Manual

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| Switch Description

Data Center Deployment

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

. . .
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 employs lossless
Ethernet connections between FCOE storage, servers, and other data network
switches.
Non-Blocking Distributed Spine Network
. . .
OSFP/BGP
ECMP
...
vSwitch
Server Rack n
– 14 –
...
Spine Cluster x
Core Router Racks