[c-nsp] Nexus evolution

[David Freedman]

Seth Mattinen wrote:
> About a year ago there were some large-ish threads on the Nexus and a
> couple people that had them in production had commented that there were
> bugs that made them feel like test subjects, plus a various assortment
> of unexpected limitations. How much has this changed over the last year?
> 
> I do notice that the 2248TP fabric extender supports direct to 7k, and
> the 22xxTP datasheet lists 100/1000 as supported speeds. I've been
> researching a 7k as a candidate for a small colo datacenter, and to me
> it seems like it's matured quite a bit (on paper, anyway).
> 

I believe that this direct-to-7k support is only just being released in
s/w (aug/sep) and it will be limted to 32 FEX per 7k (and fex must be
2248 or 2232, 2148 not supported)

If this doesn't work for you then you need to retain your 5k agg layer.

Dave.

> ~Seth
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David Freedman
Group Network Engineering
Claranet Group