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  • 1.  Border leaf system profile

    Posted Nov 06, 2023 06:41 AM

    Hi.

    In the spine leaf design we have 8325 as spine and cx10000 as leaf. With a dedicated 8360 border leaf.

    For the system profile, CX10.12 Fundamentals guide have good naming for 8325 and 10000 with spine or leaf as proposed system profile.

    For 8360 there are 3 profiles.

    1. Aggregation-Leaf (The default.)

    2. Core-Spine

    3. Leaf-Extended

    Would you prefer system profile  1 or 3 for the border leafs?



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    Ole Morten Kårbø
    ACEA | ACSP | APS CX10000 | APS Central | APS SD-Branch
    Netnordic Norway
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  • 2.  RE: Border leaf system profile

    Posted Nov 07, 2023 02:56 AM

    Hi Ole.

    I do not have an exact answer for you. I suppose you did look into what the different profiles means ?

    l3-agg

    Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 2 forwarding with more table space allocated to host(ARP/ND) entries.

    l3-core

    Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 3 forwarding with more table space allocated to route entries. (Default on the 8320 switch series.)

    leaf

    Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 2 forwarding with more table space allocated to overlay host entries (VXLAN). (Default on the 8325 switch series.)

    spine

    Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 3 forwarding with more table space allocated to route entries. (8325 switch series only.)




  • 3.  RE: Border leaf system profile
    Best Answer

    Posted Nov 07, 2023 08:18 AM

    For Border, as this is also a VTEP, please keep default profile (Agg-Leaf).




  • 4.  RE: Border leaf system profile

    Posted Nov 08, 2023 03:13 AM

    Thanks for clarifying this!



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    Ole Morten Kårbø
    ACEA | ACSP | APS CX10000 | APS Central | APS SD-Branch
    Netnordic Norway
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