Chapter 5. Enterprise Data Center Design

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Discuss design considerations for the core and aggregation layer infrastructures of the enterprise data center

• Discuss design considerations for the access layer of the enterprise data center

• Describe the access layer technologies and designs to support scaling the data center architecture

• Discuss network and server virtualization design

• Discuss designs and technologies to support scaling the data center and increasing availability

The data center is home to the computational power, storage, and applications necessary to support an enterprise business. The data center infrastructure is central to the IT architecture, from which all content is ...

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