On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote: > leaving aside marketing noise for the moment, Cisco have three completely > separate nexus products: N1k, N5k and N7k. The N1k is a software switch > which integrates into VMware ESX and takes over from the vmware switch > system. The N5k is a fixed-configuration switch, and the N7k is a large > chassis+blade switch. Notionally, the three systems run the same software, > although in reality the three nexus development teams use separate code > trains.
VDX advantages comparing to NX2k/NX5k: - VDX6710 has 6x10GE comparing to 4x10GE in Nexus 2248 - VDX6710 has better functionality on Edge ports than NX2k (on nexus you cannot do many things - eg. filter BPDUs) - VDX6710 has bigger buffers (12MB shared total on VDX versus 90/100/160KB per port on NX2k) - VDX has hitless software upgrades and RILOM ports (true OOB) - VDX is much smaller than NX5k (depth) - VPC (NX) has some limitations comparing to vLAG (VDX) _______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
