[c-nsp] side comment on VSS vs 7Ks

[Pete Templin]

On 1/21/12 3:59 PM, chris stand wrote:

> We have two data centers, one with VSS one with 2 * 7Ks.
> Both DC have 5548s and UCS chassis with L2 extended between both.
> I can create a 40Gb or 80Gb port channel from the VSS to both 5Ks and
> UCS and run L2&  L3 over it.
>
> Can't do that with 7Ks or anything else I can think of.

Why couldn't you set up the two N7000s in a VPC domain and run a 40/80G 
vPC down to these various devices?  Build it as a trunk, with at least 
two VLANs for your L3 services, and only build one SVI per N7k on 
different VLANs.

pt