[c-nsp] Nexus 5548 Questions and experiences...

[Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List]

Very much aware of that.  This is not our primary network, this is our DR faculity.  Long term we will be doing redundant 5500's however this was an unexpected implementation requirement.

From: Blake Dunlap [mailto:ikiris at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:09 AM
To: Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Nexus 5548 Questions and experiences...

Deploying a single nexus switch is kind of like riding a unicycle. Sure you can do it, but a bike is a lot more stable, and won't throw you off if you stop suddenly.

-Blake

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Blake Pfankuch - Mailing List <blake.mailinglist at pfankuch.me<mailto:blake.mailinglist at pfankuch.me>> wrote:
Within the next week I will be starting my first dive into Nexus.  I have read the Cisco Press book for nexus, however its primarily focused on 4.x not 5.x and 6.x.

I am looking for some real world feedback, including some of the gotchas people have found in existing deployments.  Really this will be a small deployment, a single 5548 for now and a couple 2232TM-E and 2224TP for fabric extenders.  What has been the experience using TwinAX cables to uplink to servers?  Cisco Twinax cables working only or have people been able to use HP/Sun/Dell provided cables with luck?  What's the experience with the Nexus B22 blade chassis FEX?

OS suggestions?  Again this is going to be a new deployment, and its going into an environment that is not upgraded heavily.  As an example I have moved some devices off 12.2 (20) or earlier in the past few weeks.

Thanks,

Blake
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