Network designed issue

[opnineopnine]

Hi all,

Is there any Cisco designed or best practices, about having 4 nexus 56128, as Core devices?

Thanks

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[Ganesh Hariharan]

Hi all,Is there any Cisco designed or best practices, about having 4 nexus 56128, as Core devices?Thanks557

Hello,

Design a network is required for thinking w.r.t layered architecture rather on 4 devices.

If you want to design traditional Three tier architecture then there are devices which fits on respective layer like in Core ( High end routing) , Distribution ( Policy based switching) and Access ( fast processing).

Nowadays we design Spine and Leaf architecture for highly scable and for high performance throughput with high density backbone.

Hope that Helps..

-GI

[opnineopnine]

Hello Ganesh,

Is there any pdf o document I can read more about this , and what will you mean with w.r.t?

Thanks.!

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[Prabath Godevithanage]

You may find some validated designs that you may be interested in the design Zone.Not much information on your post for me to direct you to a specific one but main link is as below.There's a 5500 use case in the data center section

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise/design-zone/index.html

Cheers

Prabath

[opnineopnine]

Hello preranda78.

Like I said the customer has the idea to put 4 nexus 56128 in one site, down this will go Fex 2248.  But my question , what will the best practices be with this topology.

thanks. 

[Jon Marshall]

You need to read design guides for this and talk to the customer.

If they want 4 N5ks in a site do they want all 4 as core switches or two as core switches and two as aggregation which would follow the traditional design model or are they looking for a newer design such as the one Ganesh mentions.

If the customer is asking specifically for 4 switches they must have an idea of what they want ie. nobody just randomly picks the number of switches they want, they must have some idea of the design.

Have a look at this link which is for N9K but it gives you some idea of the possible alternatives -

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-9000-series-switches/guide-c07-730115.html

Jon