Nexus 7000 IO Module SKU Cheat Sheet

Wow the title of this post is a mouthful.

Similar to my previous post on the Nexus 2000 (Nexus 2000 Model Number Cheat Sheet), this post will explain what the letters and numbers mean in the Nexus 7000 IO module part numbers. This will allow you to quickly identify the characteristics of the card just by looking at the part number which in turn should help you out as you're building BOMs and picking the right card for the job.

Update July 2, 2013: Updated to reflect release of the Nexus 7700 and F3 modules.

IGP Route Multipathing

In preparation for an upcoming post, I was reminded about a commonly referred to feature in most IGPs - the concept of Equal-Cost Multipath, or simply ECMP. This is the idea that multiple routes with the same cost to a remote network should get placed in the routing table alongside each other and packets should load-balance over them to use the additional available paths. After all, it’s the same cost, so why not?

IGP Route Multipathing

In preparation for an upcoming post, I was reminded about a commonly referred to feature in most IGPs - the concept of Equal-Cost Multipath, or simply ECMP. This is the idea that multiple routes with the same cost to a remote network should get placed in the routing table alongside each other and packets should load-balance over them to use the additional available paths. After all, it’s the same cost, so why not?

A Data Center Delivers Apps – So Shouldn’t We Monitor App Delivery?

Dinner with His Toadishness, Derick Winkworth, the other night rolled into a 3+ hour discussion of avant garde ways to do networking. One of the adjunct topics that came up was that of ownership within IT. Ownership is a complex problem in the data center, because there’s many complex technologies at work. No one single […]

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Ethan Banks

Co-host at Packet Pushers

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks
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Machine Fragile

Yesterday, a “breaking news” tweet at 1:07 PM EDT from the Associated Press reported that two explosions had occurred at the White House and President Obama had been injured. The news immediately sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 143 points, as this graph at the London Telegraph shows. There’s also a lovely animated display […]

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Russ White

Principal Engineer at Ericsson

Russ White has scribbled a basket of books, penned a plethora of patents, written a raft of RFCs, taught a trencher of classes, nibbled and noodled at a lot of networks, and done a lot of other stuff you either already know about — or don't really care about. You can find Russ at 'net Work, the Internet Protocol Journal, and his author page on Amazon.
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It Works and It Should Be Better

You say, “It works – don’t fix it.” I hear, “It works – don’t touch it.” I’m also thinking that if you don’t touch it, then it’s never upgraded or changed. Is a static, unchanged network the best you can do to support your business ? Are you happy with just doing more of the same […]

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Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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What can you learn in 5 minutes a day !

I  believe in minimalism and what small focused actions can make for a person and small steps is what Juniper learning bytes is all about. Learning bytes is an online learning resource launched last year by Juniper education services organization as a free service. The nice thing about the learning bytes is that they are focused, [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Your Job Hunt is YOUR Responsibility

Earlier this week, I read the article below. This article took a strong stance that a recruiter works for the employer, not those seeking employment. I think there are some valid points made. However, my views are a little less extreme than that of the author. NEWSFLASH: A Recruiter is Not a Job Finder!. Frankly, […]

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Paul Stewart

Paul is a Network and Security Engineer, Trainer and Blogger who enjoys understanding how things really work. With nearly 15 years of experience in the technology industry, Paul has helped many organizations build, maintain and secure their networks and systems. Paul also writes technical content at PacketU.

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FusionIO Acquires Nexgen

For anyone keeping tabs on the storage industry these days, you might have noticed the news today regarding FusionIO’s acquisition of Nexgen - one of a myriad of storage startups that have cropped up in the past few years to address the ever-changing needs of the data center industry. After looking through some of the articles that were published today, I think we all understand the financial details behind the transaction.

FusionIO Acquires Nexgen

For anyone keeping tabs on the storage industry these days, you might have noticed the news today regarding FusionIO’s acquisition of Nexgen - one of a myriad of storage startups that have cropped up in the past few years to address the ever-changing needs of the data center industry. After looking through some of the articles that were published today, I think we all understand the financial details behind the transaction.

Notes On AAA

Enabling aaa new model means the switch will try and match all login attempts using a aaa method.

First, define the TACACS or RADIUS server using:

tacacs-server host <IP-address> <optional key value>

There are some other values you can use, but I’ve never had to use these.

Now, give your authentication method a name:

aaa group server tacacs+ <method-name>
 server <IP-address>

Call the method for authenttication

aaa authentication login default group <method-name> group <fallback method name if configured> local

You should now be good to go!


DHCP client testing tool

DHCP is vastly growing in service provider networks for broadband subscribers, I had the chance to work lately with a some of these setups. The protocol is really easy to configure for broadband and provide many benefits.  It has lower overhead compared to PPPOE and it is much more suitable for Multicast services. For those [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Programming 101 for Network Engineers – Preparation

Okay, let’s say you’re convinced you need to learn to programme and you don’t want to be left behind. The earlier you start, the more you can pick up (and the sooner you’ll become consciously competent) at a pace that suits you. Hopefully, you’ll be able to blend this into your schedule with whatever else you […]

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Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson, the last of four children of the seventies, was born in London and has never been too far from a shooting, bombing or riot. He's now grateful to live in a small town in East Yorkshire in the north east of England with his wife Sam and their four children.

He's worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a variety of roles, predominantly in data centre environments. Working with switches and routers pretty much from the start he now also has a thirst for application delivery, SDN, virtualisation and related products and technologies. He's published a number of F5 Networks related books and is a regular contributor at DevCentral.

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Playing with event-scripts

Last week, I worked on 2 small projects in 11.4 Junos. I should: - Find a way to automatically disable a physical link when LACP "flapped" too many times during a given time. - Find a way to automatically disable a physical link when too many CRC errors...

Playing with event-scripts

Last week, I worked on 2 small projects in 11.4 Junos. I should: - Find a way to automatically disable a physical link when LACP "flapped" too many times during a given time. - Find a way to automatically disable a physical link when too many CRC errors...

DCI Series: Overlay Transport Virtualization

This is the third article in my series on Data Center Interconnection (DCI). In the first (Why is there a “Wrong Way” to Interconnect Data Centers?) I wrote about the risks associated with DCI when the method chosen is to stretch Layer 2 domains between the data centers. In the second article (DCI: Why is Stretched Layer 2 Needed?) I wrote about why the need exists for stretching Layer 2 domains between sites and also touched on why it's such a common element in many DCI strategies.

Routing iSCSI Traffic

This post was initiated by a side conversation I had about iSCSI. From time to time I’m required to implement an iSCSI-based solution, and this is not the first time I’ve heard the question: “So why can’t I route iSCSI traffic?” Most folks with any knowledge of storage protocols will have at some point picked up this informal best practice idea; some will vehemently defend this idea as the word of $deity and shun all those who contradict this truth.

Routing iSCSI Traffic

This post was initiated by a side conversation I had about iSCSI. From time to time I’m required to implement an iSCSI-based solution, and this is not the first time I’ve heard the question: “So why can’t I route iSCSI traffic?” Most folks with any knowledge of storage protocols will have at some point picked up this informal best practice idea; some will vehemently defend this idea as the word of $deity and shun all those who contradict this truth.
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