[c-nsp] Which switch can do what we need?

[Nikolay Shopik]

Boot buffersize change size of nvram simulate file, there no nvram all files stored on flash.

On 06.04.2012, at 0:43, Tom Storey <tom at snnap.net> wrote:

> Hey Skeeve,
> 
> Re config size, have you thought about using "service compress-config"?
> 
> This might help to reduce the config size by about 25-30%, which may
> or may not be enough, or may not be enough for long enough.
> 
> Just a quick dir I did before adding command:
> 
> Router#dir nvram:
> Directory of nvram:/
> 
>  237  -rw-        1292                    <no date>  startup-config
> 
> And after:
> 
> Router#wr
> Building configuration...
> 
> Compressed configuration from 1316 bytes to 829 bytes[OK]
> Router#dir nvram:
> Directory of nvram:/
> 
>  237  -rw-         829                    <no date>  startup-config
> 
> Though if your config is that big, maybe it is just worth finding a
> box with bigger NVRAM anyway. :-)
> 
> Also I wonder, on some Cat switches NVRAM is just flash emulated
> anyway (which might explain why some of them write their config so
> quickly...) I wonder if theres some special command that can increase
> the amount allocated to the virtual NVRAM?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On 5 April 2012 06:25, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+cisconsp at eintellego.net> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> 
>> I have a customer trying to setup a solution for some hosting.
>> 
>> They want to have a dozen or so VLANs with thousands of secondary subnets
>> across these VLANs all configured with HSRP.
>> 
>> Initially they are testing with Cisco 3750's and they are having problems:
>> 
>> Apr  5 11:48:26.484 AEST: %SYS-2-MALLOCFAIL: Memory allocation of 395648
>> bytes failed from 0x1164560, alignment 0
>> Pool: Processor  Free: 1212608  Cause: Memory fragmentation
>> Alternate Pool: None  Free: 0  Cause: No Alternate pool
>>  -Process= "hulc running config", ipl= 0, pid= 309
>> -Traceback= 29AF8E4 29B1E04 29B2068 2C3D198 1164564 1163534 1160320 1169408
>> 134B664 134B6F0 1ECAA54 1F5D2E4 1F5DA08 1620C20 1621984 1621B28
>> 
>> Also upon trying to save the config:
>> 
>> TEST#copy run start
>> Destination filename [startup-config]?
>> startup-config file open failed (Not enough space)
>> 0 bytes copied in 0.00
>> 
>> So the 512k NVRAM isn't enough.
>> 
>> Does anyone know a Cisco model that can handle this many instances of HSRP,
>> number of secondary subnets, and has the NVRAM to save the actual config?
>> (couple of meg I guess) ?
>> 
>> ...Skeeve
>> 
>> 
>> 
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