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

[Mohamed A. Monsef]

Hi Scott what do you think about Brocade ??

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Scott Granados <scott at granados-llc.net>wrote:

> 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
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> 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/<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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