[157728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Nowak)
Mon Nov 5 23:33:40 2012
From: Peter Nowak <pnowak@batblue.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJeUwaaWznqxvPwKh7AixQaLo9tH5HVLeoBZFOV5cWSF9YXzhw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 23:32:34 -0500
To: egermann@limanews.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Dell Force10 S4810 is a decent ToR switch: 48 dual-speed 1/10GbE (SFP+) =
ports and four 40GbE (QSFP+) uplinks
Peter
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> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Eric Germann <egermann@limanews.com> =
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>> Colleagues,
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>> 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.
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>> Preferably
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>> - 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
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>> 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.
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>> Any recommendations appreciated.
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>> Thanks
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>> EKG
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