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Hi.

In the spine leaf design we have 8325 as spine and cx10000 as leaf. With a dedicated 8360 border leaf.

For the system profile, CX10.12 Fundamentals guide have good naming for 8325 and 10000 with spine or leaf as proposed system profile.

For 8360 there are 3 profiles.

1. Aggregation-Leaf (The default.)

2. Core-Spine

3. Leaf-Extended

Would you prefer system profile  1 or 3 for the border leafs?

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Ole Morten Kårbø
ACEA | ACSP | APS CX10000 | APS Central | APS SD-Branch
Netnordic Norway
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Hi Ole.

I do not have an exact answer for you. I suppose you did look into what the different profiles means ?

l3-agg

Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 2 forwarding with more table space allocated to host(ARP/ND) entries.

l3-core

Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 3 forwarding with more table space allocated to route entries. (Default on the 8320 switch series.)

leaf

Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 2 forwarding with more table space allocated to overlay host entries (VXLAN). (Default on the 8325 switch series.)

spine

Optimizes the hardware forwarding mode for layer 3 forwarding with more table space allocated to route entries. (8325 switch series only.)

For Border, as this is also a VTEP, please keep default profile (Agg-Leaf).

Thanks for clarifying this!

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Ole Morten Kårbø
ACEA | ACSP | APS CX10000 | APS Central | APS SD-Branch
Netnordic Norway
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 07, 2023 08:18 AM
From: vincent.giles
Subject: Border leaf system profile

For Border, as this is also a VTEP, please keep default profile (Agg-Leaf).