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This document provides design considerations for Dell PowerScale back-end (internal) networking. This back-end network, which is configured with redundant switches for high availability, acts as the backplane for the PowerScale cluster. This backplane enables each PowerScale node to act as a contributor in the cluster and provides node-to-node communication with a private, high-speed, low-latency network.