Since hearing of the Cisco Nexus 7000 router back in January, we really wanted to get our hands on one at work. We even used the new hospital project as leverage so we could get one on-site to do some performance testing. I am told that we are the only ones in Houston to get one so naturally we did what any red-blooded network engineer would do…

We put a monkey in a dress and let her configure it for the first time. After all if 1 million monkeys on 1 million typewriters can complete the works of Shakespeare, imagine what one monkey could do in IOS with the enable password.

Brent’s take on the situation…