Brad, Can’t I make “the cloud” with traditional switches (4948 for example)? As I’ve said before, my only concern is that I’ll loose A LOT of access ports on Nexus 5000 that could be used by servers with 10GE/FCoE. Again, the only reasons you are giving me to use this design is “management facility” and vPC.
So, putting it in a balance I see more losses than benefits. What’s the big problem on connecting to another device to manage it? Is this really a big loss? It’ll take 5 minutes more to make a service. I don’t think that this is the best benefit of this design. I would really appreciate to have all switches of the same series managed by the same program (cisco DCNM), unfortunally I think we are going the other way. Loosing 20 access interfaces, isn’t a good option for me… I’m not talking about a huge datacenter. I will only need 10 1G switch for the next years, so “big L2 domain” for me isn’t to much trouble. If you could explain better this problem maybe I change my mind… I’m expecting that 10G(with FCoE) will dominate the servers design, so my loss will be huge. I’ll maintain 1Gbps only for backward compatibility (10 years? hehehe). If Nexux 2000 could be attached directly to an Nexus 7000 (it is not quite difficult to make that works) the deisgn would perfect fit for our needs… 2010/2/10 Jason Plank <jmpl...@gmail.com> > Brad, > > You just made a terrible assumption. :) > > Jason > > >> Then you should post from your gmail account. > > > > What difference would that make? We're all adults here. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Brad > > > > > > -- > > Brad Hedlund, CCIE #5530 > > Technology Solutions Architect, Data Center > > bhedl...@cisco.com > > http://www.internetworkexpert.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > > > > -- > -- > Jason Plank > (CCIE #16560) > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > -- []'s Lívio Zanol Puppim _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/