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

[philxor at gmail.com]

Plenty of people are using them in data centers with ToR switches which you could consider a very similar design.  Cisco just has a different team for "campus" vs "datacenter" for whatever reason so they work with different products.  Most campuses used 6500s so they are familiar with IOS, VSS maybe and that's why they propose the 6800.  Nexus is a new OS to learn, has some different redundancy models, etc.  

I can't see any reason why the 5K wouldn't work.  Maybe check into longer reach optics support if that is necessary.  High density low power datacenter switches don't always support longer reach optics, but I'm not sure about the 56128.  

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: "Antoine Monnier" <mrantoinemonnier at gmail.com>
Sent: ‎6/‎12/‎2014 11:38 AM
To: "Michele Bergonzoni" <bergonz at labs.it>; "cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net" <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Is the Nexus 3064PQ usable ?

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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