RE: OT: Building Scalable Data Centers: BGP is the Better IGP

Marc,

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 17:09:28, marc abel wrote:
> Cc: Antonio Soares; Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: OT: Building Scalable Data Centers: BGP is the Better IGP
> (Petr
> Lapukhov)
>
> Petr,
>
> Very interesting stuff. Would you mind a couple questions?
>
> 1. At what scale does this become viable. I realize you are dealing
> with a massive data center, would it be appropriate for a data center
> with only
> 100 TOR switches or even 10 TOR?
>
> 2. Are you doing virtualization that needs to vmotion or otherwise
> have layer
> 2 adjacency across the racks? If so are you doing some network overlay
> such as VxLAN?
>
> 3. Is the configuration management something home grown or are you
> using a commercial product?

Not sure about the rest of it, but you should get your answer to the config management question here -

http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog55/abstracts.php?pt=MTk1NiZuYW5vZzU1&nm=nanog55

-ryan

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Received on Sat Feb 23 2013 - 23:52:39 ART