Component Distribution Scenarios
The distributed architecture of the SDX software offers high scalability and extensive flexibility that allows you to customize the SDX software for your environment. SDX releases 3.1.1 and lower, in which the SDX software was an integrated application rather than a set of interacting modules, are fully compatible with this distributed architecture.
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NOTE: This chapter describes some typical scenarios, but they are by no means the only ones; many other variations are possible. |
Figure 14 shows an overview installation of all SDX components.
This section covers the following scenarios for distributing SDX components:
- Distributed—An installation that distributes the SDX components among several machines in several locations and provides reliability and scalability
- Regionalized—Distribution scenario for a large service provider that allows regional autonomy
- Consolidated—Distribution scenario that consolidates network services into regional data centers
- Single host—A minimal installation that is suitable for small operations, demonstrations, and trials