Nexus 7k query

Hi All,

I appreciate if some one could guide me on the following queries.

Has any one deployed Nexus 7K box to do dual job of both DC WAN edge
aggregating routing & WAN Traffic Shaping , LLQ for 100 + Voice gateways on
WAN as well as doing DC core Vlan routing/switching for large server farm
and potentially replace 2 x DC comms devices of DC WAN Router & existing
DC core CAT 6k or 4k.

If answer is Yes , what are the performance issues you have faced so far in
this DC deployment method and how stable the box is so far ?

If answer is NO , then we can not we deploy Nexus 7k in this dual role ?
Meaning , do you recommend this design to your customers ?

The fact that , we can have 10GE to ESXi server farms and be able to get rid
of SPT all together and also can have VPLS kind of OTV capability to span
both Primary DC as well as DR DC on a single LAN subnet/segment are very
attractive reasons to go for Nexus 7K with in DC switching & internal vlan
routing ..etc. But I am not 100% sure (with out even going any where near
 installing DSP chips or T1/E1 controllers or turning on MGCP or CUBE
functionality on it) on its ability to do 100% WAN Routing & WAN Qos with in
DC particularly at par with other DC dedicated boxes such as ASR 100Xs or
even 7206s or 7204s or 3945/ISR-G2..etc.

Secondly , can I connect SAN to Nexus directly with FCoE capability ?

As advanced skill sets on Nexus 7Ks are not that common around , I hoping to
pick up some help from this GS community.

thanks

tony

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Received on Sun Feb 06 2011 - 21:47:57 ART