Thursday, April 30, 2020

DC network with only few switches

How would you design a DC network with 4-8 switches per DC (total 2 DCs)? Seems like wasting money to build a complete spine-leaf architecture with so few switches. (We're mainly running hyperconverged stuff so we're not needing that many racks any more)

I'm thinking about doing basically a "ring" of the DC switches (theyre in MLAG pairs) and then connecting the other DC from one/two pairs depending how many fibers we can get. OSPF or BGP in the underlay and EVPN overlay.

Spine-leaf architectures are all about equal distance between every servers but do you see this kind of setup problematic?



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