I work for a mid-sized business that continues to grow and utilizes a lot of bandwidth. While we had a 6513 in our core that continued to operate just fine, it was beginning to show it's age. We had maxed out the 10Gig capacity and really had need of chassis redundancy in our core. We already had Nexus 5000's in our Data Center as well as Nexus 1000v in our virtual environments, however using Nexus as your core routers is a completely new challenge. I had spent several weeks reading up on vPC limitations and the advantages Nexus 7000 has with certain FHRPs but actually doing it, after more than a decade of installing only Catalyst switches into the core of networks, was a new challenge. This is my first, and perhaps last post but I think that an actual working design and configs may bring some value to those of you out there who, like me, have a little network know-how but little or no experience with Nexus. The image above is the actual design of ou...