Deployment Guide

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10 Scaling VCF Domains Beyond a Single MX7000 Chassis | Document ID
“Ethernet” is used when there will be multiple, individual (nonaggregated) links to the upstream network. In
this case Spanning Tree protocol is used to prevent loops in the Ethernet fabric that could have catastrophic
results.
The uplink only defines the behavior of the connection from the MX9116n IOMs to the upstream network. The
uplink configuration has no impact on the server facing ports of the IOMs.