We recently deployed fabricpath in our data center and it is working well so far, although we have not migrated all of our servers over to Nexus yet... We selected fabicpath to provide super-fast layer-2 spine within the room to provide lots of bandwidth rack-to-rack and row-to-row within the data center... We have no plans to use it for DCI or other applications right now... It is easier to manage VLANs and I would say it is now easier to turn-up services VLANs because there is no trunking/pruning of VLANs required as we had to do in the old Catalyst environment... We have tested things like VMotion and there is a substantial improvement on the order of 50s reduced to 10s to move a workload... Some of this is obviously attributed to the switch to 10G, but as we migrate all our services to Nexus we expect to maintain this kind of performance... Happy customers so far...
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Lim
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 5:27 PM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: OOT: FabricPath in DCN
Guys,
m(_ _)m Sorry it's OOT. Please let me know if there is a more appropriate forum/mailing-list for this kind of discussion.
I am interested if any of you have implemented FabricPath in your data centre network? Or other similar technology: TRILL/SPB 'compatible' from other vendor?
Do you think it is the way to go for DCN? Or it is just a transit technology to other tech, i.e. SDN?
Thank you for sharing.
Regards,
Alexander Lim
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Received on Wed Feb 27 2013 - 11:37:16 ART
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