Cisco Replacement for Extreme switches

[jamaludeen_s]

Hi,

I am looking for Cisco's replacement product for below switches

Extreme Summit X450-G2-24t-10GE4 

Extreme Summit X460-G2-24t-10GE4 

I tried with Cisco 3850, however 3850 doesn't support data center bridging standard protocols (PFC, ETS, DCBx)

Attached is the customer requirement.

Thanks in Advance.

Jamal

[Seb Rupik]

Hi there,

You are looking at the wrong family of switches. Those standards are supported by all Nexus switches.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/data-center-switches/index.html

Something like this has a similar interface configuration:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-9348gc-fxp-switch/index.html

cheers,

Seb.

[jamaludeen_s]

Hi Seb,

Thanks for the useful information, it really helped me a lot to go through the data sheet.

I have gone trough some of the nexus data sheets and i found only Nexus 5000 series switches support the (PFC, ETS, DCBx), 

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-5000-series-switches/datasheet-c78-730760.html

i don't find these options in 9000 series data sheets, however the 9000 series are cloud scale and 5000 are not. I am really confused which one to go with, there are lot of  things are not matching when comparing with extreme switch specification.

One more thins are these nexus switches support open flow & allow integration with open stack?

Thanks

Jamal

[Seb Rupik · Accepted solution]

Those standards are so backed into NX-OS that they are not listed on the datasheets. Check the configuration guides to confirm the support:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/sw/7-x/system_management/configuration/guide/b_Cisco_Nexus_9000_Series_NX-OS_System_Management_Configuration_Guide_7x/b_Cisco_Nexus_9000_Series_NX-OS_System_Management_Configuration_...

Regarding openflow it is supported but the Nexus running ACI mode provides next-gen SDN features. I believe there is a driver for openstack integration.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/index.html

cheers,

Seb.