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Cutting-edge and availability aren't really always best friends. For example cutting edge routing and switching (the latest products, fabric, SDN's, MC-LAG, etc) are notorious for …

Agreed. Application Architecture is far more important than Cloud vs. Bare Metal. It is just easier and more cost effective to through more bare metal hardware at the problem than …

Some DCs provide PDU's and some don't.

The RMA process is pretty much a moot point at this scale. It simply doesn't make sense to buy servers with large warranties. Save the money, stock spares, and when a component die…

We are talking about 1 to 2 cab density here so capex doesn't carry that much weight. Having a little headroom on your power circuits is also incredibility important, and not every…

agreed. There is absolutely zero reason to even consider 24 port switches in this environment.

>> N1 Which router should we purchase? >Pick your favorite. For what you're looking for here, everything is largely using the same silicon (broadcom chipsets). For switches, yes. M…

Agreed, skip SDN. Skip MC-LAG. Juniper, Cisco, and Arista all have solutions for this environment.

This really is only a concern when you are paying a monthly recurring charge (MRC) by the breaker amp with many power drops. For a deployment of this scale it should be metered pow…

There are two major pitfalls to crowd-sourced consulting such as this. 1) Contributors have not been vetted - Some responses are based on real world experience, and some is conject…