[c-nsp] Nexus 7000 and 6.x

[N. Max Pierson]

Thanks for the feedback Ryan. That's pretty much what i've been hearing
from everyone else as well. I'm in San Diego this week and have already
talked to a few Cisco folks and i'm told 5.2 is frozen as far as new
features. Just maintenance releases from here on out. So it looks like i'll
have to position something in place of what we were going to use a second
vDC as a route aggregation block. I think I have some boxes that will work
just fine, however I really didn't want to use any more rack space than has
already been allocated. I believe I have enough ports on a pair of 1006's
to get the job done until we actually get F modules and have a need to go
to 6.x

Thanks for all of the responses!
--
max


On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Ryan Hughes <rshughes at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had mix luck with 6.0 - some really stable (fabricpath / ipv6 / ospf
> ) on F2 and some really bad. 5.2.4 or better is whats safest if possible as
> its a long running train. 6.1 will be out shortly to support the new SUPs
> and M2 line cards.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 7, 2012, at 9:06 AM, "N. Max Pierson" <nmaxpierson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Here's the link were I discovered the needed feature isn't in 5.2
> >
> >
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/6_x/nx-os/unicast/configuration/guide/l3_NewChange.html
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Max
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:05 AM, N. Max Pierson <nmaxpierson at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry,
> >>
> >> Forgot to mention we are currently using 5.2 on 4 of the 7k's we already
> >> have deployed, and we're standing up a new datacenter which is set to go
> >> online in a few weeks. I specifically need "bgp bestpath as-path
> >> multipath-relax" as one of our vdc's will be provisioned as a RR on the
> new
> >> 7k's, but that now may change since I all I've heard are mostly bad
> things
> >> about 6.x. I may try to get a "Demo Depot" 7k and load 6.x to see what
> all
> >> is broken as this changes some device roles.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the feedback.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Max
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 06/06/2012 07:33 PM, N. Max Pierson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi List,
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyone out there running the 6.x train on the 7k?? We need some
> features
> >>>> that are available in 6.x, but realize how many additional "features"
> >>>> that
> >>>> come along with new releases. Our list...
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Which features? AIUI, 6.x is basically F2-linecard support.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> BGP
> >>>> EIGRP
> >>>> OTV
> >>>> HSRP
> >>>> VTP
> >>>> VPC
> >>>> Netflow
> >>>> LACP
> >>>> PIM
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> I believe these are all present in 5.2, which is the release TAC
> >>> recommended we use. I know for a fact there are bugs in 6.x which are
> not
> >>> present in 5.2.
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