[c-nsp] Cisco Nexus and HP Flexfabric

[Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists]

We have customers running the Nexus B22HP (Cisco/HP FEX) and it works pretty
well.

Flex-Whatever sucks. Bowling balls through straws. It's a switch, but not a
switch. It doesn't do QoS. (Flex-NIC bandwidth-limitations work only in one
direction). It doesn't do multi-hop FCoE (no FCoE out of the rack), and thus
requires more FC ports = more expensive, it is limited in number of VLANs.
Management sucks. Server admins configure networking.

>From my experience I'd say

1st prio: B22HP -> N5500 (limited market exposure, but cool tech)
2nd prio: Pass-Through -> N2232 -> N5500 
...
5th prio: CBS-3120X -> N5500
...
8th prio: barbed wired
...
Cth prio: VC FlexFabric -> N5500
...
Fth prio: VC Flex-10 -> N5500

Seriously.

-A

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Pablo Espinosa
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:10 PM
To: cisco-nsp
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Nexus and HP Flexfabric

Actually, I mis-spoke on the HP Flexfabric question.

I've been asked to consider the HP Flexfabric product OR the
integrated Cisco Nexus 2K within an HP Blade server....If anyone has
deployed either solution, I would love some feedback

thanks
p-