Thisi is what happens when you plunder alien technology from their crashed vehicles without understanding the underlying theories and principles before grafting it onto our own.
How the fuck is this +5 Interesting? Do you millennials really believe the US Gov is using alien technology in it's UAVs? I'm guessing none of you have seen the type of shit that passes for code in the government.
> If a single device brings down your entire data center, you've got design problems and your architect should be fired or retrained.
Please: if your data center has the time, and skill, and is willing to take the service interruptions to make the whole setup properly immune to single points of failure, that's great. But very, very few live business environments have that kind of resource, time, and willingness to enable critical switches with robust failover.
As other posters have mentioned the level of switches discussed by op are not DC switches. SMB switches, sure, but enterprise datacenter, no.
blah blah blah
Reality is single device failures bring down large chunks of the net including valuable peers of your "enterprise datacenter"
Of course, sometimes identical cisco models used in redundant tuples also cause outages together after upgrade by common bug that didn't show up in test
so pontificate all you want, you're vulnerable to a lot of bad things
(1) I guarantee if you emailed that explanation to a DC manager you'd be shitcanned. I agree that we are all vulnerable to bad things, but avoidance of a single point of failure device in the DC like op highlights is network ops 101 stuff.
(2) Show me a datacenter that's an all cisco shop. Most are whitebox/greybox now. Welcome to the 21st century. Most "big-data" shops have firmware experts who know their hardware down to the MMU register level and order stuff directly from places like Taiwan with nary a CCIE to be found in corporate ranks.
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