[c-nsp] ME Series for a LAN/Server Farm

[Edward Salonia]

There is no way to disable it. They are either one or the other. (Or ENI)... These platforms weren't really designed for the environment in which you are looking to deploy them.


-----Original Message-----
From: Keegan Holley <keegan.holley at sungard.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:26:44 
To: Edward Salonia<ed at edgeoc.net>
Cc: Cisco NSPs<cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ME Series for a LAN/Server Farm

I'm looking at the new 3600X series it was just released in Sept.  I noticed
the no local switching for UNI ports.  Is there a way to disable the UNI/NNI
relationship completely or enable local switching for UNI ports?


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Edward Salonia <ed at edgeoc.net> wrote:

> One thing to watch for is that there is no local switching among UNI ports.
> You could either set your port type to NNI or you could set the vlan as a
> community vlan to enable local switching. What platforms were you looking
> at? ME3400, 3750ME? You should take note that the ME3400
> series doesn't offer stacking and the 3750ME, while it has stacking ports on
> the chassis, they are non functional, so you cant stack them either.
>
> You should probably look into the 3750X series switches for stacking and
> redundant PSU's. Though if you NEED fiber access ports, you will have to
> look at the 3750G-12S as unfortunately, there is no SFP based 3750 platform
> newer than that. That said, If you need the SFP's and redundant power, you
> may be better off going to a chassis switch. You could also look at the
> Nexus if this is for a DC, but I don't have any experience with them, so I
> will leave those comments/suggestions, to others.
>
> - Ed
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley at sungard.com>wrote:
>
>> I know from previous conversations that the architecture as well as some
>> of
>> the defaults for the ME series are different than the traditional
>> switching
>> platforms.  I was curious if there were any reasons why I shouldn't use
>> them
>> in a "vanilla" switching environment such as a LAN or a server farm.  I
>> need
>> to do fiber aggregation and I haven't been able to find any cisco platform
>> that will allow me to create an all 1G fiber stack with dual power.  I was
>> curious if anyone had experience using these as just normal switching
>> platforms.
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