RE: Recommended 10GE ISCSI SAN switch

2015-05-13 Thread Sameer Khosla
Matt Taylor Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:36 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Recommended 10GE ISCSI SAN switch We've been using Dell 8024F's for over 2 years now. No problems at all. On 12/05/2015 23:36, Paul S. wrote: > Hi guys, > > We're shortly going to be get

Re: Recommended 10GE ISCSI SAN switch

2015-05-12 Thread Matt Taylor
We've been using Dell 8024F's for over 2 years now. No problems at all. On 12/05/2015 23:36, Paul S. wrote: Hi guys, We're shortly going to be getting some 10G SANs, and I was wondering what people were using as SAN switches for 10G SANs. It is my understanding that low buffer sizes make most

Re: Recommended 10GE ISCSI SAN switch

2015-05-12 Thread Randy Carpenter
- On May 12, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Paul S. cont...@winterei.se wrote: > Hi guys, > > We're shortly going to be getting some 10G SANs, and I was wondering > what people were using as SAN switches for 10G SANs. > > It is my understanding that low buffer sizes make most 'normal' 10G > ethernet sw

Re: Recommended 10GE ISCSI SAN switch

2015-05-12 Thread Lumir Srchlm
We use IBM / Lenovo switches for such traffic. Very low latency, rear to front or front to rear airflow models, large buffers, FCoE, OpenFlow support, great price-performance... G8124E or G8272 may be the right models, use DAC cables instead of SFP+ if possible. Lumir From: "Paul S."

RE: Recommended 10GE ISCSI SAN switch

2015-05-12 Thread Jordan Medlen
I am using Brocade VDX 6740 switches that support dcbx. They work very well and have had no issues in nearly two years with them. Thank you, Jordan Medlen Network Engineer Bisk Education, Inc. -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Paul S. Sent: T

Re: Recommended 10GE ISCSI SAN switch

2015-05-12 Thread Seth Mos
Paul S. schreef op 12-5-2015 om 15:36: > Hi guys, > > We're shortly going to be getting some 10G SANs, and I was wondering > what people were using as SAN switches for 10G SANs. In one location a HP Procurve 8212zl with 8 SFP+ module, and a 8Gbe module. Here i'm using a Dell EQL PS6210 SSD cabine

Re: Recommended 10GE ISCSI SAN switch

2015-05-12 Thread Stephen R. Carter
I use a ex4550 VC as our TOR for our ESXi / EQL array in one spot, and a pair of QFX5100-48S in another. No issues here with either of them. The 5100¹s have a possibility of being comparable in price once you add in the VC cards and so forth for a pair of 4550¹s. I would get a quote for them both