Data centre spine-leaf fabric template

Components in this network diagram

• WAN & Internet
• Edge routers
• Palo Alto firewall cluster
• Border leaf 1
• Border leaf 2
• Spine 1: Arista 7800
• Spine 2: Arista 7800
• Leaf 1
• Leaf 2
• Leaf 3
• Leaf 4
• Rack 1: VMware ESXi hosts
• Rack 2: Kubernetes nodes
• Storage: NetApp over 100G
• Out-of-band management network

How to use this network diagram template

1. Click Open in the editor. The network diagram opens on a new page in FlowDiagram — nothing is uploaded and there is no sign-up.
2. Rename, add or delete shapes and drag them where you want; connectors stay attached as things move.
3. Drop in vendor logos from the library — 1,160 of them, including every AWS, Azure and Google Cloud service icon — or restyle it with the colour and theme controls.
4. Prefer text? Edit the Mermaid source below and paste it in through ☰ → Import diagram (see the Mermaid editor); it imports as an editable diagram.
5. Export to PNG, SVG or PDF, or press Ctrl+L for a link that carries the whole diagram.

Mermaid source

The whole template is the text below. Paste it into FlowDiagram, keep it in Git next to the code it describes, or hand it to an AI assistant to extend.

flowchart TD
  WAN((WAN & Internet)) --> EDGE[Edge routers]
  EDGE --> FWC[Palo Alto firewall cluster]
  FWC --> BL1[Border leaf 1]
  FWC --> BL2[Border leaf 2]
  BL1 --> SP1[Spine 1: Arista 7800]
  BL1 --> SP2[Spine 2: Arista 7800]
  BL2 --> SP1
  BL2 --> SP2
  SP1 --> L1[Leaf 1]
  SP1 --> L2[Leaf 2]
  SP1 --> L3[Leaf 3]
  SP1 --> L4[Leaf 4]
  SP2 --> L1
  SP2 --> L2
  SP2 --> L3
  SP2 --> L4
  L1 --> R1[Rack 1: VMware ESXi hosts]
  L2 --> R1
  L3 --> R2[Rack 2: Kubernetes nodes]
  L4 --> R2
  L4 --> R3[(Storage: NetApp over 100G)]
  SP1 -.->|BGP EVPN control plane| SP2
  MGMT[Out-of-band management network] -.-> SP1

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