You don't want to "cheap out" on VSAN. It is designed to work with a highly specific set of enterprise/datacenter grade hardware. Do not venture off the HCL or the design guides at all. If you do, you are in for a world of hurt. If you are considering doing things not on the HCL of off the given designs, I would suggest not bothering with VSAN and go with a different solution. It is not a cheap solution.
Nexus switches are quite suitable. (NB: Nexus is just any of Cisco's Datacenter switches now-a-days). Catalyst is for Enterprise/midsized office. The Nexus 9300 series switches would work just fine in my experience as well. On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 01:39:47PM +0000, Nick Cutting wrote: > Nexus 93xx are also suitable for this task. We have tested VSAN on these. > They talk about buffers in the VSAN Docs? > > -----Original Message----- > From: cisco-nsp <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tom Hill > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 10Gb for VSAN > > This message originates from outside of your organisation. > > On 24/07/18 23:02, Michael Malitsky wrote: > > I have a Cat 4506 (Sup7L-E) serving a medium-sized business. We are > > looking to overhaul the server side and add VSAN on 4-5 hosts, for > > which we'll need a handful (8-10) 10Gb ports. I see the only option > > for the 4506 chassis is the 4712-SFP module, and the combination seems > > underwhelming, even before I look up the pricing. As I understand it, > > the TOR option from Cisco would be a Nexus, which seems overkill for > > the application? > > There are suitably-reliable 20-port Nexus 5010s you can pick-up for peanuts. > I don't believe you can still get support, but maybe you can get the latest > software via PSIRT. > > Lots of noise made and power utilised with those, so someone with more money > would obviously punt you towards the [actually white-box] N3k line for Cisco > hardware that does the same thing "in support". > > Certainly, that Cat 4500 wasn't made for it with a 48Gbit/sec backplane. > Amazingly, the Cat 4500-X seems to have better density, as well as being from > the same gen of supervisor. > > > > For those who have invented this wheel already, please share the > > wisdom. For now, I am seriously considering putting in a 10Gb Ubiquity > > switch... > > If that's all you need to do this 'VSAN' thing, then why not. See-also: > > Cisco 3650/3850 > Cisco 4500-X > Extreme X620/X670/X690 > Various Quantas, EdgeCores, Mellanox, ad infinitum. > Netgear? lol > > Have fun! > > -- > Tom > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
