Re: Nexus in DC?

Which Cisco product are you referring to that is oversubbed?

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On Aug 30, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Rick Mur <rmur_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:

> 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).
>
> --
>
> 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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