Operate and maintain
Documents in this section provide background concepts and procedures for planning, deploying, and maintaining fabrics using the Fabric Services System.
- User Guide
  This document describes concepts necessary to use the Fabric Services System. It also includes procedures for designing, deploying, and maintaining fabrics, and designating fabric resources for allocation to specific sources of demand.
- API Integration Guide
  This document describes aspects of the Fabric Services System REST API.
- Connect Guide
  This document describes aspects of the Fabric Services System Connect, a collection of intermediary software that acts as a bridge between the Fabric Services System and different cloud environments.

Fabric topology

The topological design of fabrics for data centers can vary widely. To accommodate diverse fabric structures, the Fabric Services System uses a modular, tiered approach to representing a fabric's hierarchical layers and their interconnections:

Tier 1: leaf nodes, with edge-link connectivity
Tier 2: spine nodes, which connect multiple leaf nodes together
Tier 3: backbone nodes, which connect multiple fabrics together
Tier 4: regional backbones, connecting backbone nodes together

This flexible, modular approach allows the Fabric Services System to model a wide range of topologies, grouping sets of leaves, spines, and backbone nodes in various ways and distributing connections between and within these groups in whichever way operators deem most efficient.

May 31, 2024