Thanks for the info. Re power, the EX8216 supports the 3000W AC 220V high density PSU for a 3+3 configuration for PDU A/B power redundancy
quoc --- On Thu, 10/1/09, Chris Evans <chrisccnps...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Chris Evans <chrisccnps...@gmail.com> > Subject: [j-nsp] EX8200 > To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 10:24 AM > Quoc: > "I'm considering purchasing the big iron EX8216 > chassis for our core > switching. These switches are pretty brand new to the > market. Anyone running > these and care to share their operational > experience/feedback/issues seen so > far? > > thanks, > quoc" > > We have two of the 8216's in our lab as part of an RFI > we're working on.. I > don't think we would/could use it in our production > systems.. The main > reason for us is the power supply, which is the same issue > why we can't > deploy the MX960's in our environment, it takes 5 power > supplies to run the > 8216 populated. In our power grid we have an A and B. > Unfortunately with the > way this power is laid out we could never keep the system > up when they data > center ops takes down one of the grids for maintenance. I > think the 8208's > would be the sweet spot in the product porfolio at this > point. I'm not sure > what you're real intention is for them, but for my company > the EX series > still doesn't have the feature parity to be able to replace > our Cisco > switching infrastructure. Price wise I like the EX series, > its attractive > and will be even more so when they release some high > density 10GE cards as > bring new features. > > Another thing that shocked me with the 8216 is that it is a > beast, its > HUGE.. It's almost as big as the Cisco Nexus 7010, only > missing the size by > a few inches. It really needs to be installed in a 4 post > rack, so that > might be an issue for some folks. > > Not much info, but hope it helps in some ways. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp