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DFA offers customers a number of significant advantages:</p> <h3>Optimized Fabric Infrastructure for Enhanced Efficiency and Scale</h3> <p>Optimized spine-leaf topologies provide enhanced forwarding, a distributed control plane, and integrated physical and virtual environments. The topologies help enable any network anywhere, supporting transparent mobility for physical servers and virtual machines, plus network extensibility. You benefit from extensible resiliency, with smaller failure domains and multitenant scale.</p> <h3>Simplified Fabric Management with Open APIs for Ease of Operations</h3> <p><a href="/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/prime-data-center-network-manager/index.html">Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager 7.0</a> offers centralized fabric management across both physical servers and virtual machines. It provides automated network provisioning, common point of fabric access, and host, network, and tenant visibility. 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