Nexus 7010

The first production Nexus 7000s in the city of San Antonio.   I should have posted about this earlier I suppose, but it’s better late than never!   We installed these datacenter switches last Septemeber during a 12 hour maintenance window.   These two Cisco 7010s were replacements for two Cisco 6509 distribution switches.   I’m not going to give a full run down on what these switches can do but I will say a couple things I like about them.   They run NX-OS which has a very Unix CLI feel to it so I immediately felt right at home with the CLI.   These switches also have the ability to virtual port channel (vPC).     What that basically means is that you can set up a single port channel between a pair of Nexus switches and a host or other switch which is great from a redundancy stand point.   For the past several months, I’ve learned a lot about what the Nexus can and can’t do.   They are great pieces of network gear, but NX-OS has some maturing to do still.   Overall, they are pretty sweet.

-Tim