[c-nsp] Cisco Nexus 3064

[Colton Conor]

Satish,

Glad to know you have some many in production!

Buying these used, do we need to worry about feature licenses keys or
anything like that, or is Cisco on an honor system? Do they lock down
features that only work with the correct key installed?

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 1:39 PM Satish Patel <satish.txt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here you go, we are running Nexus 3064PQ used switches and pretty much 200
> switches we have installed in our datacenter as a tor switches and running
> vPC to between them to increase bandwidth, we are also running BGP, OSPF
> routing protocols, But for that you need IP enterprise license, check
> license requirement.
>
> I have not idea about MPSL and VPLS but I believe that should work too.
>
> I’m extremely happy with these switches they have very low latency and
> very fast switching. Let me know if you have any question about these
> switches.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 30, 2019, at 10:26 AM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > For those of you that have used the Cisco Nexus 3064, what can you tell
> me
> > about this switch? The used market on eBay is flooded with these switches
> > at around $500 each which seems like a hell of a deal for a 48 port 10G
> > switch with 4 40G uplinks.
> >
> > We don't have Cisco only Juniper experience, so I don't know much about
> > these switches. From what I can tell they are EOLed, but it looks like
> > Cisco is still producing software for them?
> >
> > What confusing to me is it seems Cisco has like 6 different operating
> > systems, and this one runs the Nexus operating system which I know
> nothing
> > about. How dos it compare to Juniper?
> >
> > We traditionally use something like a Juniper QFX5100 for this port count
> > and density. How does the Nexus 3064 compare to a QFX5100? A used QFX5100
> > goes fro around $3000, so for the same price I could buy 6 of these Nexus
> > 3064's.
> >
> > There are multiple models of the 3064, so please let me know if these are
> > any big gotchas to know about.
> >
> > Does the Nexus 3064 support MPLS? VPLS? Routing using OSPF and BGP?
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