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| <section id="networking-in-a-pod"> |
| <title>Networking in a Pod</title> |
| <para>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.</para> |
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| <phrase>networksinglepod.png: diagram showing logical view of network in a pod</phrase> |
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| <para>Servers are connected as follows:</para> |
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| <listitem><para>Storage devices are connected to only the network that carries management traffic.</para></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Hosts are connected to networks for both management traffic and public traffic. </para></listitem> |
| <listitem><para>Hosts are also connected to one or more networks carrying guest traffic.</para></listitem> |
| </itemizedlist> |
| <para>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.</para> |
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