Design Reference

Figure 44: Traditional routing after moving VMs
Optimized data center routing of VMs:
Two features make a data center optimized:
• VLAN routers in the Layer 2 domain (green icons)
• VRRP BackupMaster
The VLAN routers use lookup tables to determine the best path to route incoming traffic (red dots) to
the destination VM.
VRRP BackupMaster solves the problem of traffic congestion on the IST. Because there can be only
one VRRP Master, all other interfaces are in backup mode. In this case, all traffic is forwarded over
the IST link towards the primary VRRP switch. All traffic that arrives at the VRRP backup interface is
forwarded, so there is not enough bandwidth on the IST link to carry all the aggregated riser traffic.
VRRP BackupMaster overcomes this issue by ensuring that the IST trunk is not used in such a case
for primary data forwarding. The VRRP BackupMaster acts as an IP router for packets destined for
the logical VRRP IP address. All traffic is directly routed to the destined subnetwork and not through
Layer 2 switches to the VRRP Master. This avoids potential limitation in the available IST
bandwidth.
The following figure shows a solution that optimizes your network for bidirectional traffic flows.
However, this solution turns two SPBM BCB nodes into BEBs where MAC and ARP learning will be
enabled on the Inter-VSN routing interfaces. If you do not care about top-down traffic flows, you can
omit the Inter-VSN routing interfaces on the SPBM BCB nodes. This makes the IP routed paths top-
down less optimal, but the BCBs remain pure BCBs, thus simplifying core switch configurations.
SPBM design guidelines
92 Network Design Reference for Avaya VSP 4000 Series December 2014
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