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Re: Cisco Nexus


From: George Herbert <george.herbert () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 11:19:31 -0800


I wasn't the implementing engineer but I've been at two places that did that, a larger game company and a network gear 
manufacturer in their engineering support computational hubs.  I was there during planning and rollout at the game 
company, very early in the Nexus lifespan.

Both sites brought the FEXes back to 5500s; one used a 6-something for core, the other a pair of 7ks.

Game company was more east-west, telco eqpt was very heavy east west.

In both cases it's working fine.

George William Herbert
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On Feb 2, 2015, at 10:17 AM, "Herman, Anthony" <Anthony.Herman () mattersight com> wrote:

Nanog,

I would like to poll the collective for experiences both positive and negative with the Nexus line. More specifically 
I am interested in hearing about FEX with N2K at the ToR and if this has indeed made any impact on Opex as well as 
non-obvious shortcomings to using the fabric extenders. Also if anyone is using any of the Nexus line for I/O 
convergence (FCoE) I would be interested in hearing your experience with this as well.

Thank you in advance,

-A


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