Multus public network

The public network architecture achieves all three benefits of Multus networking for Fusion Data Foundation deployments.

The following diagram shows the cluster network architecture for a Fusion Data Foundation deployment using the Multus public network:

This architecture achieves all the three benefits of Multus networking:

• Storage latency is reduced by avoiding the software-defined pod network
• Storage system gets dedicated bandwidth that avoids the noisy-neighbor interference
• Storage network is isolated from applications that prevent pods from snooping the storage network

However, if the public network has less throughput than the Pod network, storage traffic might not be faster than a traditional deployment.

Public network is the recommended architecture for the majority of Fusion Data Foundation cluster deployments. In this architecture, all storage traffic uses the dedicated public network, which includes I/O traffic from applications, data replication traffic within the storage system, and data recovery traffic also within the storage system.