On Nov 16, 2012, at 9:35, Florian <flor...@acw.at> wrote: > Hi, > > The Problem with the BladeCenter is, that there are only two network ports an > all blades, for two switches. It is possible put put two more switches in it, > but have to buy than extra network cards for all blades. > > Maybe, I can talk to my CEO to buy one or two more switches and networkcards, > but before that, I have to submit some good statements, if a raid over two > iSCSI targets is possible and works well.
Have you considered vlan trunking? > My favorite would be two 4gb fiber channel switches, but fiber channel is > expensive and there is no 10GB network option for the IBM BladeCenter E. FC isn't *that* much more expensive. I'd recommend it if you are going to add anything. > > @all, > thank you for your experience! > > Am 16.11.2012 12:20, schrieb Christopher Chan: >> On Friday, November 16, 2012 07:05 PM, Florian wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I don't know where is your problem? You don't know our network >>> infrastructure. >>> It is not so easy to have two redundant switches, no it is even not >>> possible. >>> >>> It would be nice, if we can have two redundant switches, but this was not >>> my question! >>> >>> Sorry, if my first answer was rude to you, but understand me. You made the >>> first answer to my question and it did not help!! Your answer had nothing >>> to do with my question! >> >> Okay, I get it, you don't care about potential problems, no problem. >> >> I hope you have a good switch that can do wire speed and not 30-40 MiB only >> (D-Link any one?) and some can only do the whole 1gb when jumbo frames is >> enabled. >> >> You just have to try it out yourself and run some speed tests because we can >> theorize until the cows come home but only a real practical test will give >> you the answer. Like you said, we don't know your network infrastucture, we >> don't know your OI server disk setup and we don't know what hardware you >> have. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
