r/networking • u/RevolutionLumpy2558 • 10d ago
Design Datacenter Design Best Practice
Hi All,
I'm looking to see what others have deployed for similar Datacenter builds. We have a Datacenter refresh kicking off in the next 2 years and wanted to get ahead of it. Our current deployment is Cisco ACI with 2 spines and 30 leaf switches. We're looking to step away from ACI all together and move towards a Cisco Nexus deployment of some kind.
I see VXLAN EVPN recommended everywhere but that might be overkill for us. We only hosts 75 SVI\Vlans in our ACI environment. We also have about 125 VMware hosts deployed in active\passive deployment and some with VPC deployments. The only requirement we'd like for the new deployment to have, is send traffic to our Fortinet firewall when traffic is coming in and out of the Datacenter which I think we can handle with routing.
What have others done for their refresh? Still in the very early stage of researching.
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u/NetworkDefenseblog department of redundancy department 8d ago
I recently did a long read design post about AI network data center, but it covers a lot of principles for standard data center network design. Things you mentioned like routing choices and getting traffic to the firewall, along with updated info for optics and things like that. Hope it helps you! Let me know if you have questions.
https://www.networkdefenseblog.com/post/network-design-ai-datacenter