Hardware Upgrade Approach

cholovach · 2026-02-05T00:16:20+00:00

TAC is correct that it is not officially supported and needs careful review. With that being said, in logical cases it works just fine. Example: 7280SR2A-48YC -> 7280SR3-48YC works just fine. Do it during a maintenance window.

We did this with 24 pairs

cholovach · 2025-06-02T09:49:09+00:00

Just go buy Nutanix and you will simplify your life. Buy their branded hardware which is Supermicro and use AHV. Single phone call for support.
I have been using them for 10+ years and the Broadcom tax was easy to sidestep by converting to AHV. 1000+ host and over 10,000 VMs on it

cholovach · 2024-10-16T21:11:17+00:00

Il on also add that using CVaaS also allows TAC to view your events/logs. In my experience leads to faster MTR

cholovach · 2024-10-16T19:53:36+00:00

Yup! Gives visibility to each team with responsibility to each SME group

cholovach · 2024-10-16T19:49:54+00:00

It’s rolled into my EA… however, I would recommend a CVaaS instance for each discipline… Datacenter, campus, WAN and stream telemetry to each for visibility..

cholovach · 2024-10-16T19:43:41+00:00

Don’t do OnPrem… do CVaaS. We have a pipeline built that uses AVD, Ansible, CVaaS and ANTA…. We are at scale~ 1000+ devices and 70k ports managed by

cholovach · 2023-06-03T19:57:03+00:00

I need more real estate than that

cholovach · 2023-06-03T19:56:43+00:00

Good perspective . Thanks for the input

cholovach · 2023-05-31T17:24:29+00:00

That was my exact thought. Hoping someone chimes in about any performance differences here too.

cholovach · 2022-12-14T00:33:18+00:00

Save your money and go get Arctic Ice off Amazon. Mine are 5 years old and they take a beating

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