Data Center Infrastructure Design Guide 2.1—Readme File OL-11568-01 Corporate Headquarters Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA http://www.cisco.
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CONTENTS What is Included in this DG Release? 1 Data Center Infrastructure Design Guide 2.
Contents Data Center Infrastructure Design Guide 2.
Data Center Infrastructure Design Guide 2.1— Readme File What is Included in this DG Release? This design guide (DG) provides guidelines for designing and building the data center switching infrastructure. Table 1 lists the technologies used in the data center infrastructure design documented in version 2 of this design guide. This table provides a quick glance of the topics and lists the timeframe (current or future) of documentation availability for each technology.
What is Included in this DG Release? Table 1 Cisco Data Center Technologies and DG Status (Continued) The ACE module introduces a next generation load balancer and security services module that permits higher performance and active-active designs. The ACE module is not an available product at the time of this writing. No Firewall Services Module (FWSM) Release 3.1 of the FWSM software Release 3.
What is Included in this DG Release? Table 1 Cisco Data Center Technologies and DG Status (Continued) Environmental Designing for proper cabling, cooling/airflow, and power configurations No Network Management Using the NAM, CVDM, CiscoWorks, Netflow, or other management/configuration tools No Geographically dispersed clustering Designing in support of extending (also known as stretch clusters) Layer 2 domains to support HA clustering across metro or wide area networks No CPU protection from STP
What is Included in this DG Release? Table 2 Technologies used in the Data Center Infrastructure Design Documented in DG v1.1 Technology/product Description Layer 3 data center design Using OSPF and EIGRP in the data center design Layer 3 security Using dynamic routing protocol authentication Use of VTP in Layer 2 designs Why not to use VTP in the data center Choosing a spanning tree protocol Explains the differences between 802.
