September 2022
Beginner
736 pages
20h 54m
English
Content preview from Cisco Data Center Fundamentals
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Chapter 1
Data Center Architectures
A data center is home to the computational power, storage, and applications necessary to support an enterprise business. The data center infrastructure is central to the IT architecture from which all content is sourced or through which all content passes. Proper planning of the data center infrastructure design is required, considering performance, resiliency, and scalability needs. Also, the data center design should be flexible in quickly deploying and supporting new services. Such a design requires solid initial planning and thoughtful consideration in the areas of port density, access layer uplink bandwidth, true server capacity, and oversubscription, to name just a few.
In this chapter, we will discuss ...