source/networking/networking_in_pod.rst

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Networking in a Pod
-------------------

The figure below illustrates network setup within a single pod. The
hosts are connected to a pod-level switch. At a minimum, the hosts
should have one physical uplink to each switch. Bonded NICs are
supported as well. The pod-level switch is a pair of redundant gigabit
switches with 10 G uplinks.

|networksinglepod.png| 

Servers are connected as follows:

-  Storage devices are connected to only the network that carries
   management traffic.

-  Hosts are connected to networks for both management traffic and
   public traffic.

-  Hosts are also connected to one or more networks carrying guest
   traffic.

We recommend the use of multiple physical Ethernet cards to implement
each network interface as well as redundant switch fabric in order to
maximize throughput and improve reliability.


.. |networksinglepod.png| image:: /_static/images/network-singlepod.png
   :alt: diagram showing logical view of network in a pod.