Re: Nexus in DC?

I will be installing the first UCS chassis' in the Netherlands within the
next month, of course with the UCS6k (Tweaked Nexus 5k). I also implemented
one of the first Nexus 5k's in NL last March :-)
So yes cool stuff! Still needs some time to get mature in terms of hardware
and software.
Juniper actually has a better DC switch with their EX8200 (totally
non-blocking), much cheaper for the same amount of bandwidth (not port
density, but the Juniper is NOT oversubscribed).

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Regards,
Rick Mur
CCIE2 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider)
Sr. Support Engineer  IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Ronald Johns <rj686b_at_att.com> wrote:
> We're doing Nexus as well.  In fact, we're likely ordering everything
> tomorrow.  Keep in mind, there's a limit to 12 FEX's to a 5000 cluster, or
> at least that's what they tell me.  They screwed up our first quote because
> our SE didn't look into this...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Omkar Tambalkar
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:12 PM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: 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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