Datacenter Architecture Flashcards
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Datacenter
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Any facility that businesses and other orginizations use to organize, process, and disseminate large amounts of data.
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Three-tiered Hierachy
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Consists of the Core, Distribution/Aggregation, and Access/Edge.
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Collapsed Core
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Network Architecture where the core and the distribution layers are being merged into a single layer (Not suitable for large or complex networks).
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Spine and Leaf Architecture
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An alternative type of network architecture that focuses on the communication within the datacenter itself.
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North-South Traffic Flow
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Traffic that enters or leaves the data center from a system physically residing outside the datacenter (North=Leaves datacenter South=Enters datacenter).
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East-West Traffic Flow
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Refers to data flow withing a datacenter.
