Cisco Nexus

vPC

• vPC virtual port channel, let port's on 2 vPC peers look like they are from one switch, eliminating blocked ports on ethertrunk.
• peer-gateway - only for dumb hosts that do not use arp for gw discovery, but incoming packet.
• pinning max-links 1
• Before the peer link will come up, you also have to set up VPC keepalives to detect dual active peers

  •   vpc domain 1
        peer-keepalive destination 10.10.10.14 source 10.10.10.13

• VPC Rule 101
  • VPC peers are expected to forward a frame received on a member link out any other member link that needs to be used. Only if they cannot do so due to a link failure, is forwarding across the VPC peer link and then out a member link allowed, and even then, the cross-peer-link traffic can only go out the member link that is paired with the member link that is down.
• Restatement of VPC Rule 101
  • To put it another way, VPC peers are expected to forward a frame received on a member link out any other member link that needs to be used. Only if they cannot do so due to a link failure, is forwarding across the VPC peer link and then out a member link allowed, and even then, the cross-peer-link traffic can only go out the member link that is paired with the member link that is down.
• Other options

  • Arista Networks

• Nexus 3000 Ultra Low Latency

  • 3064 48 x 10G + 4 x 40G - 1RU - L2 & L3 10Gbit/s on 64 ports 48-SFP+ + 4 x QSFP+ (40Gbit or 4 x 10Gbit )

  • 3016 16 x 40G quad sfp ports.

• Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch Oct 2010

  • Need SPS license for FC.

  • L3 capable. additional hardware

  • Nexus2k Fabric extender
    • 2148T
    • 2248TP GE
    • 2231PP 10GE

• Nexus 2000 config, upgrade, dual-home

List price estimates

• 2012

  • 2x CoreB Total: R831,708.00 = 2x R415,854.00

    • R355,774.00 N3K-C3064-E-FA-L3 : Nexus 3064-E, Std Airflow (port side exhaust), LAN Ent Lic B
      • R60,080.00 8x 1GSX-MM, 4x 10Gbase-Cu, 4x 10Gbase-Sr

  • ADD 2x R147,000.00 N3K-C3048-FA-L3 + 2x10Guplink + 4 x SFP-10G-SR : 10Gbase-Sr Sfp Module

    • R294,000.00

• ADD 2x N2K-C2248TP-1GE (48x100/1000-T+4x10GE) + 2x10Guplink + 4 x SFP-10G-SR : 10Gbase-Sr Sfp Module

  • R166,342.00

    • R49,970.73 N2K-C2248TP : N2K-C2248TP-1GE (48x100/1000-T+4x10GE)
    • R8,300.00 SFP-10G-SR : 10Gbase-Sr Sfp Module

• 2x CoreA Total: R460,160.00 = 2x 230,080.00

  • 1x R170,000.00 2 x N5K-C5548P-FA +L3: Cisco Nexus 5548P 1Ru Chassis 2 Ps 2 Fan 32 Fixed 10Ge Ports
  • 8x R2,776.15 GLC-SX-MM : Ge Sfp Lc Connector Sx Transceiver
    • 1G Fiber uplinks - DWDM + Wan + 4Floors
  • 4x R1,166.00 SFP-H10GB-CU3M : 10Gbase-Cu Sfp+ Cable 3 Meter
    • 10G to DWDM, + Link to 2nd switch
  • 4x R8,300.00 SFP-10G-SR : 10Gbase-Sr Sfp Module
    • 10G fiber 10G links.

• Cisco switch details
  • Perf 1-year limited hardware warranty
    • 176 Gbps or 131 mpps, 40°C, 95W,
  • Cisco Nexus 2232TM Coper 1/10G-RJ45 [Cisco Nexus 2232PP - SFP/SFP+] 4:1 560 Gbps or 595 mpps
  • Cisco Nexus 2248TP Coper 100M/1G
  • Cisco Nexus 2248TP-E Coper 100M/1G (32MB shared buffers.)
  • Cisco Nexus B22HP Fabric Extender

  • Core 5548's

    • (8 fabric extenders for L3 configurations)
    • Cisco Nexus 5548P Switch 160 Gbps of Layer 3 forwarding capability (240 million packets per second [mpps])
    • Cisco Nexus 5548UP Switch
    • Nexus 3064 provides Layer 2 and 3 switching of up to 1.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and more than 950 million packets per second (mpps)

  • Modules

    • Cisco Fabric Extender Transceiver (FET-10G) FO-SR OM3 0.1uS
    • NXA-AIRFLOW-SLV Nexus2k Airflow Extension Sleeve
    • N2K-C2148T-FAN= Cisco Nexus 2148T FEX Fan Module (Std airflow, port side exhaust), spare
    • N2K-C2248-FAN= Cisco Nexus 2224TP, 2248TP, and 2248TP-E FEX Fan Module (Std airflow, port side exhaust), spare
    • N2200-PAC-400W= Cisco Nexus 2200 AC Power supply (Std airflow, port side exhaust), spare
    • N2200-P-BLNK= Cisco Nexus 2200 Power supply Blank, spare
    • SFP-10G-SR(=) 10GBASE-SR SFP+ Module
    • SFP-H10GB-CU1M(=) 10GBASE-CU SFP+ Passive Cable 1 Meter
    • CAB-C13-CBN(=) Cabinet Jumper Power Cord, 250 VAC 16A, C14-C13 Connectors

• HQ R1.5M
  • R461k(2Core) x1pair
  • R167k(2Switch) x6pairs [2xNewServRack + 0xIBM +1xCore + 2xProduction + 1xDev]
• DR R1.2M
  • R461k(2Core) x1pair N5K-C5548P-FA +L3
  • R167k(2Switch) x4pairs N2K-C2248TP-1GE [1xCore, 1xRack1 , 1xRack2, 1xSpare]

• Option B

  • Using WS-C3750X-48P-S -> WS-C3750X-48P-S IPBase, poe + stack, 160Gbit Fabric, Max Forwarding 101.2 mpps,

    • 3750X-48P-MTBF-139,913 C3KX-PWR-715WAC-MTBF-664,055
    • Operating Temperature 40C
    • 2 x 10G MM fiber ports.
    • Problem: The airflow on the Cisco Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Series is "front and sides" to back airflow.
    • Spares
      • C3KX-PWR-715WAC= 715W AC power supply
      • C3KX-FAN-23CFM= Fan module spare
      • C3KX-4PT-KIT= Extension rails and brackets for four-point mounting for Cisco Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X Series
  • HQ
    • Core 10Gig fiber concentration switch.
    • Pairs of WS-C3750X-48P-S IPBase(48x1G , 715W - PoE future, 2 can power-stack for redundant power in Datacenter, 10G uplink)

      • Q Air flow for WS-C3750X-48P-S ??? Want port side exhaust.

  • DR
    • Core 10Gig fiber concentration switch.

Nexus 5548 Questions ?

• Max 2k switches supported in L3 mode ?
  • 8
• Max span sessions ?
  • 4
• Max vPC, LACP bundles ?
• Max HSRP sessions ?

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