Chapter 5. Data Center Overlay Networks

This chapter covers the following exam topics:

2.2 Describe the concepts of overlays

2.2.a OTV

2.2.b NVGRE

2.2.c VXLAN

Applications are the most critical component in the Data Center and businesses are looking for new ways of data center designs, which is more scalable and agile to support the rapid development and deployment of new applications. Server virtualization has been growing exponentially year over year, which allowed data center admins to have more flexibility in provisioning and placement of new compute workloads in the data center. The problem is that network infrastructure didn’t develop in the same fast pace with application development. The introduction of data center network overlays and ...

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