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HPE7-A04 · Question #85

You are designing a Data Center with Spine Leaf architecture. Spine Switches are 8400 with 12 QSFP28 ports (F-B airflow) and leaf switches are 8360 switches stacked with VSX in each rack. The…

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Designing Data Center Network Architectures

Question

You are designing a Data Center with Spine Leaf architecture. Spine Switches are 8400 with 12 QSFP28 ports (F-B airflow) and leaf switches are 8360 switches stacked with VSX in each rack. The Customer sent you the following Specifications Each Spine Switch uses:

  • 1 x 100G QSFP28 5M DACs to each Leaf switch

Each Leaf Switch uses:

  • 1 x 100G QSFP28 5M DACs to each Spine switch
  • 2 x 100G 1M DAC for ISL
  • 1 x 25G SFP28 DAC for Keep alive

What is the scalability in this design?

Options

  • ASolution can scale to 12 total racks using the same subscription rates.
  • BSolution can scale to 24 total racks using the same subscription rates.
  • CSolution can scale to 36 total racks using the same subscription rates.
  • DSolution can scale to 48 total racks using the same subscription rates.

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#spine-leaf scalability#VSX#oversubscription#port capacity planning

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