Network fabric¶

The following diagram illustrates the physical and virtual L2 underlay networking schema for the final state of the Mirantis Container Cloud bare metal deployment.

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The network fabric reference configuration is a spine/leaf with 2 leaf ToR switches and one out-of-band (OOB) switch per rack.

Reference configuration uses the following switches for ToR and OOB:

Cisco WS-C3560E-24TD has 24 of 1 GbE ports. Used in OOB network segment.
Dell Force 10 S4810P has 48 of 1/10GbE ports. Used as ToR in Common/PXE network segment.

In the reference configuration, all odd interfaces from NIC0 are connected to TOR Switch 1, and all even interfaces from NIC0 are connected to TOR Switch 2. The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) interfaces of the servers are connected to OOB Switch 1.