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c_b
Tutor
Feb 24, 2020

Spine and leaf underlying technology

Does anyone know what the underlying technology is in the spine and leaf deployment model for managed switches?  I.e. is it TRILL, VXLAN etc.?  What is the end-to-end control plane?  Is spanning-tree...
  • c_b's avatar
    c_b
    Tutor
    Feb 24, 2020

    Thanks, but the linked documents are very high-level.  My questions are more technical, i.e. what technologies are underpinning the spine and leaf physical topology that are not in use with a legacy topology?  E.g. many legacy L2/L3 topologies rely on STP; is the spine and leaf solution L3 to the edge?  How does it handle VM mobility between leaves?

    • DaneA's avatar
      DaneA
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Mar 16, 2020

      c_b,

       

      I apologize for the late response.  I inquired your concern to the higher tier of NETGEAR Support and I was informed that the Spine & Leaf implementation is based purely on Stacking. Each connection between spine – leaf is done using stacking.

       

       

      Regards,

       

      DaneA

      NETGEAR Community Team

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