it's been years since we upgraded from 3750s to 3850's for our Core switch at our primary facility. Since then the company has grown by alot, and the 3850 line is not doing it for us. the specific pain points are general throughput issues within the Virtual infrastructure (Vmware using SANS and iSCSI for storage). We're a Cisco shop if the above models didn't point that out already. i'm looking at the 9k series, or possibly a low level Nexus (which i have no experience with). I want to go Chassis based this time around as I think the Stacking approach has run it's course for our needs. I'm wondering what people on here can give for insight on a budget (although i don't know what that number is i need to justify what i buy) for this sort of project, and what equipment configuration/topology items should I be thinking of. Our CDW reps pitched this as less of a core network refresh and more of a push to make the server/compute system like an onsite data center and keep that seperate from the user networks.
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