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

Chris Evans chrisccnpspam2 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 13:28:54 EDT 2014


Revenue just gets dumped into different BU buckets and each has its own
comp plan for the sales reps. It matters to them because it affects their
pocket books :)


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Blake Dunlap <ikiris at gmail.com> wrote:

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