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

[Blake Dunlap]

Cisco tries to tell us the same thing. We think it has a lot to do with the
fact they're competing with themselves campus vs datacenter, and this is a
much cheaper option with better scale. We are using 5672s and larger for
core / distro and cisco howeled about how its for datacenter and we should
use the 68s as well.

-Blake
On Jun 12, 2014 10:38 AM, "Antoine Monnier" <mrantoinemonnier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> > Ing. Michele Bergonzoni - Laboratori Guglielmo Marconi S.p.a.
> > Phone:+39-051-6781926 e-mail: bergonz at labs.it
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