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Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Mon Nov 5 03:14:33 2012
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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:14:20 +0200
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: egermann@limanews.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Eric Germann <egermann@limanews.com> wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> I'm looking for a recommendation on a smallish 10G Ethernet switch for a
> small virtualization/SAN implementation (4-5 hosts, 2 SAN boxes) over
> iSCSI with some legacy boxes on GigE.
>
> Preferably
>
> - 8-16 10G ports
> - several GigE ports for legacy GigE hosts or cross connect to a legacy
> GigE switch
> - preferably not a large chassis based solution with blades
>
> The hosts aren't going to be driving full line rate, nor the SAN boxes
> providing full line rate, but their offered loads will definitely exceed
> 1Gbps. Assessing whether it is better to go 10G now vs. multi-pathing
> with quad GigE cards. Trying to find the best solution for > 1G on a
> trunk and < $50K per box.
You can look ar Brocade TurboIron 24. It has 24 ports of 1/10G
depending on the SFP you put in.
