[132127] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hubbard)
Tue Nov 16 08:56:55 2010
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:56:24 -0500
From: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
To: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon.kim@brandontek.com]=20
>=20
>=20
> One question I do have for any that actually read through=20
> this entire email (haha) is about the physical network=20
> switch. Is there a case for the switch, especially
> in today's high density environment to go with 1GIG switches=20
> as the minimum? It seems pretty obvious but I'm wondering if=20
> it's really a necessity?
> Can anyone on this list argue that 10/100 will be suffice?
>=20
If you're going to do iscsi, 10/100 will be pitiful
for performance. If it's just carrying the guest (VM)
traffic, 100 mbit is fine.
