[j-nsp] EX8200 VirtualChassis versus Cisco VSS

[Robert Hass]

Do I need 2x XRE to have Virtual-Chassis of EX8200 or I can do this without
XRE ?

Rob



On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Morgan McLean <wrx230 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The 8200 vc stability is the best out of the EX lineup in my testing. I
> can't make it fall over, where as I can find corner cases that will crash
> 3300s etc.
>
> Just keep in mind the VC connections will only work with certain line cards
> afaik. And I thought two RE's were required for dual xre use but I guess a
> 2200 in the middle is indeed a hack. :p
>
> Morgan
>
> On Tuesday, August 13, 2013, Billy Sneed wrote:
>
> > The EX8200 Virtual-Chassis w/ a couple of the XRE200's does well. The
> > XRE's act as the control plane and the 8200's end up just being
> linecards.
> > It's a bit hack-ish IMHO w/ a EX2200 switch acting as the glue between
> each
> > XRE and the 8200.
> >
> > We've run 11.2 - 11.4 and pleased w/ the stability. Our VC is split
> > between two buildings a few SM fiber pairs acting as the VC connections
> > between. We've dozens of aggregation switches (EX4500's & EX4200's)
> > connected w/ LACP to each and are very pleased.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Billy
> >
> > On 08/13/2013 05:46 AM, Robert Hass wrote:
> >
> >> How Virtual-Chassis on Juniper EX8200 is different than Catalyst 6500
> >> (Sup2T) VSS ?
> >>
> >> Are both have shared control-plane ?
> >>
> >> How about stability of Virtual-Chassis and VSS on latest software
> >> releases ?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I would like to implement core layer using EX8200 or Cat6500 (two core
> >> switches).
> >>
> >> Each core device will have only redundant power-supply. Line cards, CPU
> >> etc
> >> will be non-redundant. Redundancy will be archived using two boxes.
> >> Access-Layer switch will be connected to both core devices using 1GE or
> >> 10GE links and aggregated into single PortChannel (LACP).
> >>
> >> Access devices will be Cat2960XR (Cisco) or EX3300 (Juniper).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Rob
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> Morgan
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