USING FABRIC PORT-CHANNELS TO SCALE IP CONNECTIVITY TO HOSTS IN DIRECTLY CONNECTED SUBNETS IN MASSIVE SCALE DATA CENTERS

摘要

Systems and methods are provided for using fabric port-channels for Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs) to scale IP connectivity for hosts in directly connected subnets in massive scale data centers. By representing SVIs by internal fabric port-channels, ToRs hosting the SVI can share routed traffic directed toward hosts within the associated vlan in a load-balanced manner without frequent updates to the FIB/Adjacency tables.