[c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss

[Antoine Monnier]

Hi list,

6 months later, any additional feedback on those Nexus 3000 or 6001 box?
Anyone has experience with the newer Nexus 3100/5600 ? (are they even
shipping?)

We are looking at different options for a small DC setup and were wondering
on the maturity of those different products.


Cheers

Antoine

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:15:01PM -0700, Pete Templin wrote:
> > On 9/12/13 11:30 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
> >
> > >To be fair, one would need to compare software features - so what does
> > >the N3K do?  L2 only?  L3, with how many routes?  IPv6, MPLS?
> >
> > Gert, you don't want to explore the N3K, you'll have 6500 heartburn all
> > over again.  URPF halves the route table size, max 16k routes (but v6
> > routes count double), a separate memory space for host routes, very
> > limited ACL TCAM and it has to be carved up for v4/v6 at boot time.
>
> Yay.
>
> But I wouldn't want to use that as a "core router", more like "a switch
> with lots of 10GE ports, and maybe some functionality for doing EoMPLS
> across datacenters or such" - so "a few 100 IPv4/IPv6 routes" would
> be plenty for that role.  Like the Extreme thingies, but with a less
> confusing CLI :-)
>
> > NXOS for this platform seems very buggy, so one might end up doing
> > endless code upgrades to get past showstopper bugs, only to encounter
> > more bugs in the next build.
>
> I'm not particularily surprised, but that's not encouraging either... :-/
>
> gert
>
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