On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Massimiliano Cuttini <m...@phoenixweb.it> wrote:
> > > > Il 08/10/2014 14:39, Nathan Stratton ha scritto: > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Massimiliano Cuttini <m...@phoenixweb.it> > wrote: > >> If you want to build up with Viatta. >> And this give you the possibility to have a fully feature OS. >> What kind of hardware would you use to build up a switch? >> > > Hard to beat the Quanta T3048-LY2, 48 10 gig, 4 40 gig. Same chip as > Cisco, Dell, HP, etc. Like I said, merchant silicon and white box switches > are the wave of the future. You can use Quanta OS or what I recommend is > get one with the ONIE bootloader, then you can put Cumulus software on it > for more features of if you much more daring flash it with BigSwitch and go > OpenFlow. > > BigSwitch is better than Viatta or just something different? > Different, BigSwitch is a SDN controller. > I'm building a OpenStack+Ceph solutions, than BigSwitch seems to fit more. > Depends on what you want to do. If you want to add SDN/NFV then yes it makes sense. > About the Quanta that you suggest... whell WOW! > :) Yep, amazing what you can get for under 5k. > I see also the top solution: T5032-LY6 and even this one is affordable > (just $7200). > That switch is 40 gig, normally used spine/leaf connecting the 10 gig switches together, unless that is you want to do 40 gig to the server. :) > About Infiniband, what kind of "white" switch would you suggest? > I am not aware of any white box infiniband vendors, it is a very different space then ethernet. -Nathan
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