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Some core gear just racked in my new DC. Cisco Nexus 7710, and a pair of Nexus 6001's on top of that. Above that is a 2901 for oob console access and a 3850 for misc. connectivity. The other half of the core of the DC is on the other side of the room. Not pictured are 40 Nexus 5548's and 32...
Since we've been on the subject of surplus gear. Here is a bunch of 3550's, RPS's, a 4006 some parted out 6500 chassis and a 7206 vxr plus probably some other junk. Stack is about 7 feet high. And, no, I can't give away or sell any of this, sorry :P.
You aren't going to get anywhere near a gig of routed throughput using a router unless you want to spend big money (i.e. 7200 series cisco with NPE G2) or better. Best bet is to go with a layer 3 capable switch such as 3560X which has 2 10gig uplinks (or 4 1gig) and 48 copper 1 gig ports.
Here is my lab rack for getting in some quality hours in with the CCIE R/S lab blueprint:
5 - 2811's
1 - 2821
3 - 3560-24
1 - 3560-48
Missing are some 2611's that will be some backbone routers and a frame switch and a load of serial interfaces. Should be fun!
LACP has nothing to do with the load balancing on an etherchannel hence the acronym Link Agregation Control Protocol. It only performs negotiation between switch and host or switch and switch to bring up the port channel and notifies each end when a port drops out or is added to the channel...
My poor baby F5's :P
Netscalers look decent, but I have never used them and know F5 fairly well and had to get something up and running fairly quickly. Guess I should download their virtual appliance and test it out.
Yeah, 10G links on the 7k's are dedicated. Fabricpath would have been cool but it wasn't supported in nxos yet on the 5548's (maybe now? I haven't looked). I'll keep an eye on the M1 cards. So far so good.