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Planes (Staged)
Planes Overview
Planes are groups of superspines. Each 5-stage topology consists of one or more planes
You can add superspines to planes in 5-stage Clos networks (as of Apstra version 4.0.1). The maximum number of super spines is limited by the number of available spine ports of type superspine. When you add superspines, additional superspine nodes are created with the same logical devices that are used in the existing blueprint template. You must manually assign the interface maps for the device profiles of each new node. When the devices are physically ready, you can assign each node with their corresponding system IDs (serial numbers). When you commit pending changes, the superspines are configured and they become part of the control and data plane, taking part of forward traffic between pods.
Add Superspines per Plane
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From the 5-stage blueprint, navigate to Staged > Physical
> Planes and click the Change number of
superspines per plane button.
- Enter a number higher than the existing one.
- Click Update to increase the number of superspines and return to the Planes view.
Stage the superspine as described in the overview, then commit the changes to activate them.