Re: Nexus in DC?

We are also rolling out the NX 7010 and 5020 in the next couple of months as
part of our datacenter network upgrade. I am planning to use vPCs from the
5020 to 7010 but as we are using 2 VDCs there will be vPC for each VDC
translating to 4 10g coming out of each 5020. I am sure we will have to get
a extra 32 port 10g card with 8 ports dedicated for line speed for these
cross connects. Not to mention you need 1 keep-alive and 1 cross-connect for
each VDC.
It seems that the 7010 can do lot of service aggregation using the ACE, WAAS
modules but we just want to consolidate our aggregation switches in to
single set of chasiss.
On top of that in a few months time, we have provide active-active
datacenter functionality with a set of NX 7010 at each datacenter so that
traffic can be load balanced.
And the training was a 4-day Firefly course...which was fairly basic in
terms of depth and breadth of material covered
Fun times.......

-Omkar Tambalkar
CCIE #24892

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Tony Varriale
<tvarriale_at_flamboyaninc.com>wrote:

> Yup.
>
> If this is your first experience with any of those platforms I guarantee
> you
> are going to run into something not so pleasant.
>
> tv
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Marc
> La Porte
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:27 AM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: Nexus in DC?
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Any of you already having practical experience with big Nexus roll-outs in
> Data Centers? Running into any "problems"?
>
> For a customer we are planning to deploy 5020 end-of-row switches with
> 2148T
> top-of-rack switches, aggregated in 7018s fully loaded with 32-port 10-Gbps
> blades. Just to give you an idea, the complete data center would be around
> 256 rows (30,000 ports)...
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
>
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