[j-nsp] Viability of EX4300 in a primarily l3 environment?

[Sebastian Wiesinger]

* Paul S. <contact at winterei.se> [2014-08-02 05:18]:
> Hi folks,
> 
> We're considering the EX4300 to run routing (l3) for a few
> hypervisors of ours that are connected via l2.
> 
> Primarily interested due to the rather massive arp limit (64, 000)
> on the switch, but we've been told (and searched for ourselves to
> find out) that the 4300 platform has been plagued by random issues
> since launch.

I don't have hands-on experience but I looked at the EX4300 platform
for a new deployment. If you look at the current release notes:

http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.2/information-products/topic-collections/ex-qfx-series/release-notes/ex-qfx-series-junos-release-notes-13.2X51-D25.pdf

There are a lot of (serious) bugs still getting fixed so I'm not sure
how mature this platform is. One big reason for that is probably
because EX4300 uses other chips than the rest of the 4xxx series
(Broadcom).

Regards

Sebastian

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