[c-nsp] Core: 2x4948 or 1x4503

[James Slepicka (c-nsp)]

Nexus 5548 (with L3 daughter card, if required)?

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From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Dan Letkeman
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:50 AM
To: cisco-nsp
Subject: [c-nsp] Core: 2x4948 or 1x4503

Hello,

We are looking at replacing our core switches (2x3560G).  I'm looking at a few options, but the ones that interest me the most is the 4948E-E, and the 4503-E w/two 48 Port line cards and a SUP 6L-E.  As far as bandwidth required, we have three esx hosts and two san's.
About 40 vm's.  We do have some fiber trunks to various different buildings so the 4948E's look like a better choice because they have the sfp slots built in.

The main thing i'm looking at, is to setup redundancy to the esx hosts & san's.  I've read alot about people using 3750G's in a stack, but I really wanted to get away from the 3750's and 3560's because of the output discards from micro bursts.

Any suggestions?

Dan.
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