thanks Ulrik for the feedback On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Ulrik Ivers <[email protected]> wrote:
> We've deployed a pair of Nexus 6001 as a L2/L3 Aggregation in a > multi-tenant DC. > > The Nexus 6001 runs vPC and HSRP for redundancy and multiple VRFs. They > are then connected to a pair of ASR9Ks. OSPF between Nexus 6001 and ASR. > > So far we're very happy with the setup > > /Ulrik Ivers > > -----Original Message----- > From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Antoine Monnier > Sent: den 11 april 2014 16:02 > To: Gert Doering; Pete Templin; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss > > Hi list, > > 6 months later, any additional feedback on those Nexus 3000 or 6001 box? > Anyone has experience with the newer Nexus 3100/5600 ? (are they even > shipping?) > > We are looking at different options for a small DC setup and were > wondering on the maturity of those different products. > > > Cheers > > Antoine > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:15:01PM -0700, Pete Templin wrote: > > > On 9/12/13 11:30 AM, Gert Doering wrote: > > > > > > >To be fair, one would need to compare software features - so what > > > >does the N3K do? L2 only? L3, with how many routes? IPv6, MPLS? > > > > > > Gert, you don't want to explore the N3K, you'll have 6500 heartburn > > > all over again. URPF halves the route table size, max 16k routes > > > (but v6 routes count double), a separate memory space for host > > > routes, very limited ACL TCAM and it has to be carved up for v4/v6 at > boot time. > > > > Yay. > > > > But I wouldn't want to use that as a "core router", more like "a > > switch with lots of 10GE ports, and maybe some functionality for doing > > EoMPLS across datacenters or such" - so "a few 100 IPv4/IPv6 routes" > > would be plenty for that role. Like the Extreme thingies, but with a > > less confusing CLI :-) > > > > > NXOS for this platform seems very buggy, so one might end up doing > > > endless code upgrades to get past showstopper bugs, only to > > > encounter more bugs in the next build. > > > > I'm not particularily surprised, but that's not encouraging either... > > :-/ > > > > gert > > > > -- > > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > > // > > www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected] > > fax: +49-89-35655025 > > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/
