I really appreciate the time and effort you put into your incredibly informative, detailed and helpful answer, thank you very much.
I have a few questions i’d like to ask and hope it’s of no bother to you to answer them.
- What is the reasoning behind the 25% allocation for growth? Why 25%? Is there an accepted growth rate per year for a given network size or is this just guess work?
- Why 4 access switches per stack? Is this for availability reasons? Would say 5 switches per stack be problematic (with 5 stacks) or less beneficial/efficient?
- What are the reasons regarding the 150 device per subnet guidance? Is this related to the above question?
- Is there any point/benefit to using more than 2 L3 switches in the distribution layer? is 2 sufficient for my scenario?
- Why are local services, web server and the domain controller connected directly to the layer 3 switches?
There is no information given regarding physical locations or departments so I’m not really sure how to segregate appropriately with that in mind.
I apologise for the questions I just like to know the reasoning behind these things lol.
Thanks again, Sam.
Edit:
This is my attempt to design the network in visio, i’d appreciate any advice, thanks.
