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Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS (Ensure Business Continuance on Virtualized Networks by Implementing Layer 2 Connectivity Across Layer 3)
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Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS (Ensure Business Continuance on Virtualized Networks by Implementing Layer 2 Connectivity Across Layer 3)

by Nash Darukhanawalla - CCIE No. 10332, Patrice Bellagamba
June 2009
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
8h 20m
English
Cisco Press
Content preview from Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS (Ensure Business Continuance on Virtualized Networks by Implementing Layer 2 Connectivity Across Layer 3)

Chapter 11. Additional Data Center Interconnect Design Considerations

This chapter addresses several key technologies and issues that you should consider when interconnecting data centers, including the following:

• Multicast

• Alignment of spanning tree, HSRP, and active service modules

• Routing design

• QinQ MAC overlapping

• Storm control

• QoS considerations

• Stateful switchover

• OSPF cost

• Anycast RP and router IDs

Multicast Deployment in a Layer 2 Environment

An Ethernet switch learns MAC addresses from the source MAC address field of the Ethernet frame it receives. This is because a source MAC address of any packet will always be an address of a device and will never be a multicast or a broadcast MAC address. However, a switch, by ...

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