The following figure shows the logical layout of the PowerFlex rack and access and aggregation with the management aggregation network architecture:
Figure 12. PowerFlex network architecture
Each PowerFlex compute and storage node contains the following:
- 2 x Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN 25 GbE Dual-port SFP28 Adapter cards.
- Each card has 2 x 25 GB port connections.
- Out of 4 x 25 GB ports, 2 x 25 GB connections are used for PowerFlex data traffic and 2 x 25 GB connections are used for other networks such as hypervisor management, vMotion, and private networks.
- 1 x 10 Gbps for Management traffic.
- To achieve maximum availability and performance, two of the interfaces from each of the NIC cards are bonded together to form a network bond. Corresponding VLAN’s are created in each network bond as required by the application. For more information about the network architecture, see the Dell PowerFlex network architecture.
Note: PowerFlex Manager automates entire switch configurations along with bond configuration.