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Our Cisco rep is going to talk to us about Nexus next week. We are considering a move to VSS or perhaps Nexus for some of our data centers next budget cycle. I tried to get a quote for a well-populated Nexus chassis yesterday, but the pricing wasn’t yet available to our Cisco partner.
From everything I read, I like the ability to upgrade a Nexus without taking it offline the most. We tend to stay on the same IOS version on the core, because management perceives 6500 upgrades too risky unless there’s a demonstrated need for the new IOS. The Nexus throughput is insane, but we don’t really push huge traffic. Even so, it is nice to know Cisco’s got a chassis that can act as a 10Gig aggregation point with little or no oversubscription. The ability to add fabric spine cards to scale the backplane up as you go is great.
I thought NX-OS’s full XML API was interesting, too. That could put some powerful monitoring and reporting tools on the street in a hurry.
/Ethan - CCIE Candidate Blog http://www.ethanbanks.net
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