Cisco recommends use of Nexus switches as datacenter switches. Nexus 5000 as the main switch, 10GE ports, Nexus 2000 as additional switches, connected to 5K using 10GE/20GE.
Cyrill > Hi, > > I'm looking for some switch recommendations. We currently have 2950/2960's > 10/100 with gig uplinks and are looking at upgrading. New features we'd like > to get are: > > * 40+ gigabit ports > * hardware acl support for ipv4 and ipv6 on ingress and egress traffic per > port (just src/dst:[port]) > * "ip source guard" type support to restrict allowed mac / ip on each port > for ipv4 and ipv6 > * qos on ingress/egress traffic per port for ipv4 and ipv6 (primarily just to > throttle down from gigabit rates as needed) > * jumbo frame support > > Some nice to have: > > * 10 gig uplink support > * redundant power > * reversible air flow (hot air coming out of network port side) > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
