[177736] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Nexus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ewing)
Mon Feb 2 19:24:24 2015
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:24:15 -0600
From: Brandon Ewing <nicotine@warningg.com>
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 12:51:04PM -0600, David Bass wrote:
> The n2k ToR is not a great design for user or storage interfaces if most =
of your traffic is east/west. It is great as a low cost ilo/drac/choose yo=
ur oob port, or if most of your traffic is north/south. Biggest thing to r=
emember is that it is not a switch, and has limitations such as not connect=
ing other switches to it. Like anything else you have to understand the pro=
duct so that you don't engineer something that it wasn't designed to do.=20
>=20
And remember -- The Nexus 2K performs absolutely ZERO local switching -- all
frames received from client ports are just copied to the upstream device, so
it can handle the frame/packet forwarding logic.
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Brandon Ewing (nicotine@warningg.com)
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