A network infrastructure team must select a topology for a new data center hosting microservices workloads that generate intensive East-West traffic between virtualized servers. The design requires consistent deterministic latency, equal-cost multi-pathing (ECMP) across all available links, and exactly two Layer 3 forwarding hops between any two leaf nodes. Which network topology architecture best satisfies these technical requirements?
- Spine-Leaf (Clos) architectureCevap
- BTraditional three-tier campus architecture
- CSingle-tier SOHO router topology
- DHost-based Type 2 hypervisor overlay topology
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Spine-Leaf (Clos) architecture
The correct answer describes a Spine-Leaf (Clos) architecture. In a two-tier Spine-Leaf topology, leaf switches connect to end systems and to every spine switch, ensuring that any leaf switch can communicate with any other leaf switch via a single spine switch (two network hops). By running Layer 3 routing between spine and leaf nodes, all inter-spine links remain active and carry traffic simultaneously using Equal-Cost Multi-Pathing (ECMP), providing deterministic low latency ideal for East-West data center workloads.
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