I heard today that Cisco will no longer make their Nexus-line of switches for non-Cisco brand blade enclosures.
What does this mean exactly? Those of us with the Dell M1000e blade chassis who are currently using pass-throughs and were waiting for the promised Cisco Nexus 4000 won’t have to wait anymore because it’s NEVER coming out.
Am I the only one who thinks Cisco shot themselves in the foot by doing this?
I mean, I have hands-on experience with UCS and wouldn’t wish that evil on anyone.
*EDIT*
I just wanted to add that this affects all OEM vendors like Dell, HP, and IBM, as Cisco dropped production of new switches for other blade systems.
IBM offers the 4000i in their BladeCenter. I think Cisco has become extremely closed and is using their networking position to try to squeeze the market into buying their servers. Give BNT&Emulex a try.
We’ve been looking at other options, but our network team bucks anything that’s not Cisco (or otherwise managed through the same pane of glass) :( Dell has some really nice offerings for our M1000e chassis’, just don’t think they’ll let it on the network.