Hello everyone,
I have a question I wanted to present to the community. We have a pair of Nexus 93180YC-EX switches which supports 1/10G ports. However, our routers and firewalls only have 1G copper ports and are connected to these switches. Therefore, they are taking up precious real estate where other hosts that support 10G can be using. We are running low on that real estate and management is trying to hold off on purchasing a new pair of 9Ks in hopes that we can move some of these infrastructure devices from off the 9Ks and over the FEX's. We asked Cisco about this in the past and I can't recall their reasoning for leaving them on the 9Ks. I think it had something to do with the number of MAC entries or something like that. Here are my questions:
1. Are there trade-offs for putting these types of devices (routers & firewalls) on a FEX versus leaving them on the N9K?
2. If there isn't an official word from Cisco or any real reason as to why I would keep them on the 9Ks versus the FEX, is there a best practice guide someone can point me to for this type of scenario?
As always, thanks!
Terence
