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 still required?
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?
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.
