What are your needs? 10GE? Layer 3 capable? There are a lot of small Cisco switches. The main difference between the 3650 and 3850 is the wireless controller thing to my knowledge. Not really beneficial to a SAN switch. Since Cisco tends to not publish buffer sizes for a lot of these small switches, it's a bit of a guess. The 2960X are decent for a lot of purposes, maybe SAN. That's just a guess though.
Chuck -----Original Message----- From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Greene Sent: Friday, January 08, 2016 9:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [c-nsp] switch for SAN Hi all, I know running Catalyst switches for SAN backbone fabric is not the best idea, due to limited buffers. However, we have been doing just that with a 3750X and Dell Equallogic 6100/4100s for quite some time, with no issues. We are putting in a NetApp FAS3160 and need to add a switch. I see 3750X is EOL and Cisco positions the 3850 as its replacement. 3850 is even slightly less expensive than 3750X. Questions: - Should we expect the 3850 to perform as well or better than the 3750X for this application? - Is there any other switch we should be looking at which is not humongously more expensive? Maybe Nexus 3k could work, but it's a lot more expensive. Maybe 4948E? Seems up there price-wise, too . Thanks, Adam _______________________________________________ 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/
