Thursday, December 21, 2017

Nexus 92160 or alternative for small campus L3 core switch?

Looking at Nexus 92160 because of cost for small campus core switch.

Pairs of 9200s in datacenters would aggregate layer 2 Catalysts at 1/10G gig using vPC. The layer3 peer-router seems to address concerns with routing and vPC. Are there better approaches? Familiar with 5000, 7000 and 9300 - any gotchas with 92160?

The nexus 9200 pairs in centers would interconnect to each other at 10 or maybe 40 Gig. Is Fabricpath still preferable for campus vlans or would something else be better? Where possible, I would route and get rid of campus wide vlans but anticipate some need to maintain vlans - mostly point to point.

campus seems too small to need a spine or core to aggregate the 9200s but interested in the pros-cons.



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