Hi Eric, We use it as a core and distribution switches in our campus, have about 5 VSS pairs, and so far it runs very fine and stable, have not had any issues with it.
But we have fairly easy setup, no blades (FWSM, ACE) in the box, which makes things simple. Best Regards, Pavel Skovajsa On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Thomas Dupas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > The FWSM (or any service module) wasn't supported in a VSS setup until SXI. > And I don't think that many people made the step yet to SXI on a production > VSS system, but you never know. > > Overall I have had fairly good results with VSS in terms of throughput and > stability, they were mostly used as distribution switches in the campus or > "bookshelf" switches in the DC. The biggest flaw so far is the downtime when > performing an upgrade, you fall back from SSO to RPR due to the IOS > mismatches, and that means around 5 minutes downtime on failover. Same as you > would have with supervisor redundancy in a single chassis > They now have an "eFSU" (semi-ISSU?) in the SXI release, which should improve > upgrade procedures (RPR+ in stead of RPR), but it's not really ISSU according > to the specs. But I certainly want to try that (but then I need a next > release to upgrade to :-)) > > Best Regards, > > Thomas Dupas > > > On 22/11/08 21:01, "Eric Cables" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm working on a design which includes 2 pairs of 6509s w/ VS-S720-10G > (one in each chassis). The VSS capable supervisor engines were chosen > mainly for the 10G interfaces, but the more VSS documentation I read > the more it seems like a great solution for added > redundancy/bandwidth, while reducing complexity. As far as modules, > all will be 6748s or 6724s, and the only service modules in the mix > will be a pair of FWSMs in one of the VSS pairs. > > Can anyone provide any feedback on your VSS experiences? How have the > FWSMs played with VSS? Any design considerations I should be aware > of? > > Thanks, > > -- Eric Cables > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
