Re: [c-nsp] 7600 Owners, failure stats wanted

2012-01-22 Thread Kimaru Mansour
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM, James Bensley wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm now lab'ing up a 7609-R for deployment in the near future. It has > a single RSP720-3CXL-GE in it. What I want to know is, all of you that > have or do run 7600's, what are your real world failure rates of the > RSP modules?

Re: [c-nsp] 7600 Owners, failure stats wanted

2012-01-22 Thread N. Max Pierson
> Even if you've never had a failure I'd still like to know, thats just as important. We have a mix of 6500/7600, all SUP720 (some VSS). All chassis have dual SUP's (probably ~240 or so chassis) and haven't had a bad SUP in quite a long time. (4 years maybe) Our 7609's (non -S) are used to dual-h

Re: [c-nsp] side comment on VSS vs 7Ks

2012-01-22 Thread N. Max Pierson
>Why couldn't you set up the two N7000s in a VPC domain and run a 40/80G vPC down to these various devices? >Build it as a trunk, with at least two VLANs for your L3 services, and only build one SVI per N7k on different VLANs. We do this to connect N7k's @ datacenter1 to VSS @ datacenter2 to trans

Re: [c-nsp] side comment on VSS vs 7Ks

2012-01-22 Thread Pete Templin
On 1/21/12 3:59 PM, chris stand wrote: We have two data centers, one with VSS one with 2 * 7Ks. Both DC have 5548s and UCS chassis with L2 extended between both. I can create a 40Gb or 80Gb port channel from the VSS to both 5Ks and UCS and run L2& L3 over it. Can't do that with 7Ks or anything