[j-nsp] EX8200 VirtualChassis versus Cisco VSS

[Morgan McLean]

Yes you need at least one xre. I suggest you read juniper documentation on
the 8200 VC.

Morgan

On Thursday, August 15, 2013, Robert Hass wrote:

> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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