[c-nsp] what is best data center vendor ?

[Scott Granados]

I'd have to second this!

Also and this may be a preference thing but JunOS in general is easier for 
me to connect with mentally for some reason.  I think it's just because 
there's so much BSD under the hood and it just feels more natural in terms 
of operating and configuring.  You have to be careful of bugs though and bad 
obvious ones at that.  I've seen branches of the EX4200 code released with 
broken rapid spanning tree as just an example.  You get a good solid release 
for the features you need though and that great interface and they are fun 
to work with not to mention easy to work with across different platforms.

I'd take Cisco though over Foundry if you don't have Juniper as an option. 
My experience has been that Cisco provides much better support and a more 
complete feature set deployed somewhat logically.  My experiences with 
Foundry support on the fast Iron / Server Iron and similar was totally 
lacking.  I got one support tech who didn't even understand the basics of 
link aggregation.  Cisco has always provided good switches across the whole 
range.  Of the two, I would hands down take Cisco and you know you'll get 
good support.




-----Original Message----- 
From: krunal shah
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 10:40 AM
To: Mohamed A. Monsef
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] what is best data center vendor ?

QFabric from Juniper.... Its indeed an engineering masterpiece.

Listen to best resource to learn about it.
http://packetpushers.net/show-51-juniper-qfabric/
Krunal


On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Mohamed A. Monsef
<m.abdelmonsef at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Experts
>
> I'm studying data center products of different vendors and i see Cisco is
> marketing Nexus family switches
> as the best switches can support virtualization and cloud computing
> applications in data center
> However i see Brocade has a large portfolio also with multiple success
> stories but no fabric solution is available for now
> what is the best vendor ?
> if anyone has experience with both vendors i need to hear your opinion
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