Data centers house the servers, storage, and networking that power modern applications. The network inside a data center looks nothing like a campus LAN or WAN.
I'll cover these topics:
- Traditional and spine-leaf architectures
- East-west vs north-south traffic patterns
- VXLAN and overlay networks
- Data center interconnect between sites
- Storage networking with iSCSI and Fibre Channel
- Virtualization and container networking
If you build cloud infrastructure or work with large-scale applications, you'll use these concepts daily.