I am reworking our entire network design this hardware life cycle and switching from Extreme Switching to a more "enterprise" networking platform(please don't say extreme is enterprise). The design is going to be a spine leaf EVPN Vxlan(BGP) network to "combine" 2 data centers over a <5ms MPLS. The main thing I am aiming to fix is near seamless VMware VMotions cross site without re-IPing, L2 database replication(no multicast) as well as many other L2 benefits.
Now is where the question comes in, Juniper is pretty much the creator of EVPN and is tried and true when it comes to tunneling technology(currently have 4 juniper routers for VOIP connections). Cisco is obviously been the big dog and has proven to always preform well and be of sound quality with integrations of new tech. And last but not least is Aruba Switching, these guys have been rather up and coming since the replaced HP switching a couple years ago. The new CX series switching looks to be the bees knees for new switching technology and with our current Clearpass integration we all know that same vendors tend to integrate the best, my only fear is they are rather new and there are almost no companies near us that use it.
So tell me what you would what ones you love and what you hate, and if you have done a EVPN solution some lessons learned are always great :)
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