[c-nsp] Nexus 5000?

[Michael Balasko]

They are OMG deep(30 inches) so make sure that doesn't cause you any
issues. My understanding is that the current 5K line will NEVER do L3,
but someone more internal to Cisco can confirm/rebuff that statement. 

My pet peeve is that on the 5010's we bought you cannot assign an IP
address to a VLAN for MGMT, you have to use the single (1) non-
redundant dedicated copper management port. 

I understand that in most cases, that's better(tm), but for our
installation it makes it a bit inconvenient, like if the switch that the
5K is connected to goes down, you can no longer manage it regardless of
how much redundancy you put in place. 

And no, using a terminal server to access the console is not the same:)


Last tidbit, if you're not worried about Spanning tree interoperability
issues, take a look at Arista Networks. We had the 7148SX, in place and
they were awesome minus the spanning tree issue.(We run rpvst+ here)
Support was awesome, they were solid as a rock and just a good group of
guys in general. 



Michael Balasko
CCNP,CCSP,MCSE,MCNE
Network Specialist II
City of Henderson, Nevada


-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Tony Varriale
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:43 AM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 5000?

It sounds like you aren't using FC through them, so I'm guessing they
were 
positioned as a high density, low cost 10g solution.  Along with being 
cheaper, they will also be more green.

The 2ks are high density low cost 1g solutions.

Note there is no layer 3 on the 5ks at this time.

tv
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ChrisSerafin" <chris at chrisserafin.com>
To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:45 AM
Subject: [c-nsp] Nexus 5000?


>I have a client that Cisoc is recommending the Nexus line of switches
for 
>their data center. They will be using IBM blade switches and I'm
guessing 
>these would be the 'core'.
>
> They are looking at (2) Nexus 5010's and (2) Nexus 2000's.....totaling

> 60K.
>
> I'm wondering why this would be recommended, since the only added
feature 
> of the Nexus line from Cisco.com's video is that they have 10GB 
> ports.....and really nothing else.
>
> I'm almost ready to recommend my favorites....3750G's for this
scenario.
>
> Anyone have real world experience wirking with these devices and can
share 
> comments? good or bad, and why you went with them?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
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