Disadvantages of Spine-Leaf Architecture
- Spine-Leaf architecture requires a greater number of cables.
- The number of hosts connected is limited to the number of spine switches.
Spine-Leaf Architecture
Spine-Leaf Architecture is a two-layer architecture. This architecture has two layers i.e The spine layer and the Leaf layer. The Spine layer and Leaf layer are connected in the full mesh topology. This architecture overcomes the limitations of three-layer hierarchical architecture. Every leaf switch is connected to a spine switch in a full mesh topology. The leaf layer contains the access switches that connects to the servers and provide a connection for end users. The spine layer is called the backbone of the network as it interconnects all the leaf switches.