[c-nsp] Is the Nexus 3064PQ usable ?

[Antoine Monnier]

Thanks Michele for sharing the feedback you received on this.


Our cisco sales rep is telling us that he has never heard of Nexus used as
a campus distribution-layer and is trying to convince us that that Catalyst
6807 is the right choice (instead of Nexus 56128P), even though we would
get less 10Gig port-density, 1:2 oversubscription, 5x more RU used, at
least twice the power consumption, etc... and all of this for twice the
price!

Are there other people out there using Nexus (3x00 ? 5x00? 6x00 7x00?) at
the distribution-layer of medium-sized campus?
Medium-sized being about 60 access-layer closets with dual 10 Gig uplink
each and a small server-farm.


On the downside I hear that the "orphan port" scenario with vPC may be a
pain in the back side? I still need to read the details of this.
Is anyone running vPC at the distribution-layer of a campus environment?


Thanks

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Michele Bergonzoni <bergonz at labs.it>
wrote:

> Does anybody have success/horror stories about the [Nexus] 3064 or 3048 to
>>
>> share? If you email me in private, I can post an anonimized summary.
>>
>
> I received two very helpful replies.
>
> One person told me about some new 3172PQ: "I am loving them to death".
> This person is using them as L2, with vPC.
>
> One person is using the 3064X with OSPF, BGP VRRP and is happy with it.
> This is very similar to what I am trying to do.
>
> I still feel a bit uneasy, but I think we will end up trusting the
> datasheet.
>
> Cheers to all,
>
>                                 Bergonz
>
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