I really like the Myricom’s because they are supported by everything, but the Chelsio is faster in my experience.
As for switches, you could in theory get 10GbaseT SPF+ gbics (I think they make such a thing) so you don’t need new cards. Any chance your looking at selling your X650? shawn On Jun 3, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Will Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to decide which way is the better path… We currently have 12 servers > running 10GbaseT, with the switch they are tied back to being an older > Extreme Networks Summit X650 (24 x 10GbT ports) which is now EOL. The group > in question wants to build out this server farm, and exceed 24 ports (I’m > looking at a 48-port 10G switch, which should hold them for a while.) The > problem is, deciding between staying with the current 10GbaseT (which limits > my choice of switch vendors), or changing over to 10G SFP+ (which maxes out > my switch choices, but forces me to re-buy the NICs for the 12 servers…) > > Does anyone have some wisdom about making this choice, and what do folks out > there like for 10G SFP+ server NICs? > > Thanks, > Will > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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