Nothing in particular, just general experience with them. Were those deployments YOUR choice or were you called in to deploy something a customer was sold by someone else? Thing is, I am so far hearing pretty close to zero buzz about the line. I am generally excited about the idea behind the technology, but I have concerns about the implementation. In my interactions with networking folks in the area, I see a lot of awareness of the line of gear but nothing actually being recommended by my peers. So far the chirping of crickets (with the exception of your reply) in response to my request seems to validate that intuition. I hear claims from sales people but I always take those with a healthy serving of salt. <br>
<br>I have an architecture that is already installed, already working, works well, has no problems. The VDX line appears that it will work in the application but it is new gear with potentially new problems and while it would save me a couple of thousand dollars, it also results in some changes in the server design to accommodate (servers were spec'd to use 10GBaseT, Brocade doesn't offer 10GBaseT).<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Mr. Dickerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:naskrfan@yahoo.com">naskrfan@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Anything in particular you are looking for with the VDX? ToR vs. Cloud environments?</span></div><div>
<br><span></span></div><div><span>I have been involved in 4 architecture/design/deployments in various scenarios. <br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">
<font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> George B. <<a href="mailto:georgeb@gmail.com" target="_blank">georgeb@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> foundry-nsp <<a href="mailto:foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 28, 2011 2:31 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [f-nsp] Anyone using VDX switches?<br></font><div class="im"><br><div>Any experiences to share (on or off list gladly accepted).<br>
<br>George<br><br><br>
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