The following figure shows the logical layout of the PowerFlex rack, access, and aggregation with the management aggregation network architecture:
Figure 8. PowerFlex network architecture
Each of the PowerFlex CO and SO node contains the following:
- 2 x Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN 25 GbE Dual-port SFP28 adapter cards.
- Each card contains 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 ports 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 VLANs are created in each network bond as required by that application. For more information about the network architecture, see the Dell PowerFlex network planning guide.