cloudstack/docs/en-US/networking-in-a-pod.xml
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<title>Networking in a Pod</title>
<para>Figure 2 illustrates network setup within a single pod. The hosts are connected to a pod-level switch. At a minimum, the hosts should have one physical uplink to each switch. Bonded NICs are supported as well. The pod-level switch is a pair of redundant gigabit switches with 10 G uplinks.</para>
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<para>Servers are connected as follows:</para>
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<listitem><para>Storage devices are connected to only the network that carries management traffic.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Hosts are connected to networks for both management traffic and public traffic. </para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Hosts are also connected to one or more networks carrying guest traffic.</para></listitem>
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<para>We recommend the use of multiple physical Ethernet cards to implement each network interface as well as redundant switch fabric in order to maximize throughput and improve reliability.</para>
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