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Nutanix on HPE ® ProLiant ® 5. HPE ProLiant Best Practices | 16 Figure 5: ProLiant ESXi Network Detail We recommend a leaf-spine network architecture to eliminate oversubscription, providing maximum throughput and scalability for east-west traffic. Choose a line-rate, nonblocking ToR switch that provides high throughput and low latency between nodes in the Nutanix cluster. Configure the ToR switch ports facing the HPE ProLiant servers using the vendor-recommended configuration for server ports. Use a configuration like portfast or edge to ensure that the server- facing port transitions immediately to the spanning tree forwarding state. Additionally, configure ports to automatically detect and negotiate speed and duplex. Configure the CVM and hypervisor VLAN of the Nutanix nodes as untagged or native in the ToR switch. AHV networking is similar to ESXi networking, as shown in the following diagram. The cabling for the ProLiant servers is identical, and all the same management recommendations apply. Nutanix recommends using the active-backup load balancing algorithm for simplicity, but to use both uplink network adapters for additional throughput, use balance-slb load balancing or LACP instead. For more information, review the AHV Networking best practices guide.