[c-nsp] Nexus 5k dual sup design

[manderson]

The alternative would be to leave them on the existing 65oo infrastructure.

I agree, if you're single-homed your application is lame!

These are really good arguments!  I really appreciate it.

Thanks


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Chris Marget <chris at marget.com> wrote:

> What's your alternative for single-attached servers? The only reasonable
> way to support them in a vPC enabled 5K/2K topology is to vPC-attach the
> FEX.
>
> Having said that, I don't care for it. I'd leave the single-homed servers
> attached to whatever infrastructure is currently supporting them. They
> obviously aren't very important...
>
> Anecdote: One customer botched their software upgrades in such a way that
> one member of a pair of vPC 5020s upgraded all FEXen (they were vPC
> attached) simultaneously, taking out an entire row of dual-NIC servers.
>
> Also, there's the FEX budget to consider: vPC attachment cuts your already
> limited FEX count in half.
>
> /chris
>