I realize this is cisco-nsp, but does anyone have any opinions on the Force 10 S-series for top-of-rack? Especially for iSCSI SAN. I've long been frustrated with Cisco's lack of a cost-effective "48 ports of gigE with a 10ge uplink" switch. I don't really *need* a $12,000 layer 3 switch (or two) at the top of every rack in my data center!
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Andrew White <[email protected]> wrote: > Any reason why you wouldn't go for fcoe on nexus 5k? :) > > > > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Jason Gurtz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Not sure that you want to go with Nexus at this point. Its got some > >> really nice features, however we keep running into code bugs . Not just > >> stuff that's obscure and shows up in certain situations but real show- > >> stoppers like being unable to form port-channels with HP blade servers. > > > > Interesting assessment and sorry to hear about the microsoftish > > experience. We're not intending to use blades (ESX Server 4 on a number > > of HP DL380G6 is likely) and would like to do cross-box etherchannels for > > redundancy. > > > > Jeff mentioned the 4948 of which the 10G version looks great since we're > > wanting to mirror the san off-site over fiber. > > > > There's still a chance that fiber channel will happen though it looks > like > > that doesn't really make sense in this day and age. Here, vendors are > > pushing the MDS9124 box. > > > > Thanks for the responses so far. > > > > ~JasonG > > _______________________________________________ > > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > -- Brian C Landers http://www.packetslave.com/ CCIE #23115 _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
