This section covers design considerations for the IP network carrying NVMe/TCP traffic. At a high-level, the network must provide connectivity between SFSS, hosts, and storage as follows:
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A key requirement of a storage network is to provide a minimum of two active paths between hosts and storage. This is achieved by creating multiple sources and multiple destinations across separate broadcast domains.