We chose Mellanox/Nvidia due to price, port density, port speeds, hardware performance. Yes the onyx software is basic but cisco asr provides dci features not included or go cumulus. This will connect our hyperconverged environment running nutanix soon.
Kind Regards, Greg Antic Smart Technology Centre (Pty) Ltd +27 87 310 1751 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Block 10, Townsend Office Park, 1 Townsend Road, Bedfordview, 2008 On 24 Jun 2019, at 09:53, Brian Turnbow <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi , Mellanox (or should we say Nvidia now?) is overkill for 1G ports, but is interesting and very competitive at high speeds. Here in Milan they are using them at MIX for 100G ports and seem to be happy. Their base software is lacking some features, for example in data center interconnect, but you can run cumulus on them to extend the feature set by purchasing a license directly with the box. They will then offer support for the hardware and cumulus directly. Brian -----Original Message----- From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Antic Sent: domenica 23 giugno 2019 18:13 To: Gert Doering Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Experience with Lenovo switching, anyone? Hi, has anyone considered mellanox? We have picked mellanox 2410. https://store.mellanox.com/categories/switches/ethernet- switches/sn2000/sn2410.html Kind Regards, Greg Antic Smart Technology Centre (Pty) Ltd +27 87 310 1751 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Block 10, Townsend Office Park, 1 Townsend Road, Bedfordview, 2008 On 23 Jun 2019, at 16:37, Gert Doering <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 04:12:12PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: We've moved to Arista for the "1RU, lots of 10/25GE ports, MLAG" places in our network, and we are very happy. Stuff works like a breeze - and if it doesn't (we found a bug with IPv6 and OSPFv3, of course) ATAC is really pleasant to work with. Turned out to be too expensive for us. 1 G/s more than enough as edge connectivity for servers, not that much ???hyperconvergence??? going on, yet. That???s why it does not pay (yet) to have higher bandwidth at the ToR. Indeed, for 1G, Arista is fairly pricey. So I???m looking for 2-3k for a ToR switch - upper limit. We are replacing refurbished Cisco gear that came at 600 per 48 1G ports with 2 10G uplinks. It???s really hard to find current manageable gear for our size ... Have a look at Juniper EX3400. 24 or 48x 1G, 4x 10G, and reasonably priced (they can do routing, but the routing license costs extra). ... that's where we went when Cisco annoyed us too much in the 1RU L2 switching sector... with nice ideas like a "yearly recurring license fee" (catalyst 9300 series), etc. (Sorry for not answering your original question - no idea if their gear is any good, but after a bit of experience with "other" switching gear - Extreme, Supermicro, Intel/ONS - this is what we've landed at, Juniper for 1G and some 10G, Arista for 10G+MLAG+Routing) gert -- "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:cisco- [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
