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By that simplistic logic then Arista 7500-series [1] would give you a 384-port aggregation (per device) with 48-port rack switches hung off it for something lik
by nixgeek 14y ago
By that simplistic logic then Arista 7500-series [1] would give you a 384-port aggregation (per device) with 48-port rack switches hung off it for something like 8000+ servers.
What stops someone from having multiple zones within a datacenter interconnected with suitably large LAGs thereby avoiding being limited by the port capacity of any one device?
Why is the exact number of servers important to the topic, or is it just to satisfy your curiosity? :)
[1] http://www.aristanetworks.com/en/products/7500series http://www.aristanetworks.com/en/products/7500series
- dsl 14y agoI'm specifically addressing the original parents straw man. > There are maybe, what, a thousand people in the U.S. that have worked on network administration for something GitHub's size? I didn't intend to deflate any nerd egos, just putting things in realistic terms. GitHub is cool. It's the biggest in its industry. It's definitely an interesting problem. But it's still hosted within Rackspace, which in itself isn't that big.