Re: Nexus in DC?

Why can't it? It's a different product. Take a look at the slicks.
You should be able to tell just from those. It's far more than MEC.

I thought the EX was 160 per slot. I guess I'll have to dig around
for some info since I'm not that good with Juniper.

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On Aug 31, 2009, at 3:23 AM, Rick Mur <rmur_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:

> I know you can enable 'performance mode' so the linecard shuts down
> 24 ports of the linecard.
>
> Why can't the EX compete to the Nexus? The performance is quite the
> same if not better as the Nexus line and totally owns the Cat6500 in
> terms of performance. Still the Cat wins it on service modules and
> the vast amount of line cards.
> And btw. the EX8200 already has 320Gbps backplane connection for all
> linecards while the Nexus gets support for 230Gbps linecards end of
> the year and I don't even want to know when they start thinking of
> 500Gbps to finally offer true non-blocking 32-port 10Gbps
> linecards :-)
> The only thing the EX8200 lacks is support for some sort of multi-
> chassis etherchannel, this is on the roadmap to be released soon
> though.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Rick Mur
> CCIE2 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider)
> Sr. Support Engineer b IPexpert, Inc.
> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Tony Varriale <tvarriale_at_flamboyaninc.com
> > wrote:
> Ok.you didn't say anything about the n7k in your message.
>
>
>
> The n7k 10gig card can be "non-blocking".even thought that isn't the
> correct
> terminology.
>
>
>
> Also, the v2 cards are coming out next year which will address the
> 10g card
> oversub issue.
>
>
>
> The EX series doesn't really compete with the Nexus line. It's more
> of a
> competitor to the 6500s/ME6500s. When the new Cisco Sup comes out
> it will
> match the 10gig per slot capabilities. The EX is more of just
> straight 10GE
> enterprise or SP.
>
>
>
> tv
>
>
>
> From: Rick Mur [mailto:rmur_at_ipexpert.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:46 PM
> To: Tony Varriale
> Cc: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Nexus in DC?
>
>
>
> The Nexus 7k. Of the 32-port 10GE linecard, you can only use 8
> specifically
> marked ports if you want the full non-blocking 10GE due to the
> backplane
> connection. End 2009 they will release a linecard with 230Gbps
> backplane
> connection, so that should give a little better port-density vs.
> performance. Also the Cat6500 is oversubscribed as it also has a
> 40Gbps
> backplane connection and you can buy 8-port 10GE linecards and 48-
> port 1GE
> ones.
>
>
>
> So I really like the non-blocking idea of the Juniper EX8200, great
> selling
> point :-)
>
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Rick Mur
> CCIE2 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider)
> Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Tony Varriale <tvarriale_at_flamboyaninc.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> Which Cisco product are you referring to that is oversubbed?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>
> 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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