[c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss

[Ulrik Ivers]

We've deployed a pair of Nexus 6001 as a L2/L3 Aggregation in a multi-tenant DC.

The Nexus 6001 runs vPC and HSRP for redundancy and multiple VRFs. They are then connected to a pair of ASR9Ks. OSPF between Nexus 6001 and ASR. 

So far we're very happy with the setup

/Ulrik Ivers

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Antoine Monnier
Sent: den 11 april 2014 16:02
To: Gert Doering; Pete Templin; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss

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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