Patent ID: 8370496

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing traffic in a networked environment, comprising: under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, receiving a request to a provisioning component for the networked environment, the networked environment including a plurality of computing host servers to be connected by a network aggregation fabric including layers of network switches, a path across the aggregation fabric to each host server involving a number of connections across the network switches; determining a number of the host servers to be used in processing data associated with one or more concurrent sources of the request; determining, for at least a lowest layer of the aggregation fabric, a number of network switches over which to disperse the determined number of host servers; determining a number of the host servers to be connected to each of the network switches at the lowest layer of the aggregation fabric; and enabling adjustment of at least one of (a) the number of network switches over which to disperse the determined number of host servers or (b) the number of host servers to be connected to each of the network switches at the lowest layer of the aggregation fabric, wherein at least some level of oversubscription is present for at least one layer of the aggregation fabric.