From: Hoogen (hoogen82@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 05:53:17 ARST
My suggestion would be VSS, nexus is kind of a totally different platform
and is for a total new purpose. It basically boils down to what you want to
do. VSS is built on 6500 platform so it is proven to a certain extent. I saw
you mentioning about ability to upgrade without taking it offline. This is
going to be a feature in most IOS thats going to come out with a feature
called ISSU, talk to your partner and ask them to find out when this feature
is available in VSS. VSS is optimal for core, distribution and sometimes
server farms/access too. You are gonna get ability of a lot of Port channels
if I know the number is somewhere between 384 PO's to 512 PO's that means
you can connect a lot of servers to the VSS switch. It pushes 1.4 TB i know
nexus is much bigger. But this is good enough for most data centres.
Yeah nexus is good to..but this is going to posistioned not as a competition
to 6500 but an area of its own "Virtulization". bottom line talk to your
partner understand the benefits and take a decision.
-Hoogen
On 1/30/08, Banks, Ethan <Ethan.Banks@chasepaymentech.com> wrote:
>
> Our Cisco rep is going to talk to us about Nexus next week. We are
> considering a move to VSS or perhaps Nexus for some of our data centers
> next budget cycle. I tried to get a quote for a well-populated Nexus
> chassis yesterday, but the pricing wasn't yet available to our Cisco
> partner.
>
> From everything I read, I like the ability to upgrade a Nexus without
> taking it offline the most. We tend to stay on the same IOS version on
> the core, because management perceives 6500 upgrades too risky unless
> there's a demonstrated need for the new IOS. The Nexus throughput is
> insane, but we don't really push huge traffic. Even so, it is nice to
> know Cisco's got a chassis that can act as a 10Gig aggregation point
> with little or no oversubscription. The ability to add fabric spine
> cards to scale the backplane up as you go is great.
>
> I thought NX-OS's full XML API was interesting, too. That could put
> some powerful monitoring and reporting tools on the street in a hurry.
>
> /Ethan - CCIE Candidate Blog
> http://www.ethanbanks.net
>
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
> |Behalf Of Salau, Yemi
> |Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:44 AM
> |To: Cisco certification
> |Subject: Cisco Nexus 7000 Series at $75k
> |
> |What do you guys think of Nexus 7000 series to be unveiled by Cisco?
> |
> |The Cisco NX-OS that drives it, has anyone used it before, is it
> anymuch
> |different to Cisco-IOS and CatOS? $75k sounds kind a cheap to me, for a
> |technology that delivers 10GbE optimized switching platform that can
> |scale up to 40GbE and 100GbE when available!
> |
> |NO doubt this will target the Data Centre Market and promises to
> deliver
> |up to 15TbE some day!
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