Lou -
Thanks for the input. Good point on the per chassis cost, I did not consider that. The way our building is, it is hard to not have switches leading back to the core. We have a bunch of E1's right now I am hoping to upgrade to N1's across our campus. Sorry to say, but the N1 is already destined for other duties, you are stuck with the HP switch. J Dave- Good idea on spreading things out over multiple blades, I may do that if we can get maybe a second gig blade for the servers. This is not ALL of our servers, it is just one of our clusters, so the good thing is, one blade going down would not bring everything crashing down. Some great input guys, I think it has steered me in the right direction on what to do. And maybe this will save us some $$ too, which is always a nice thing. Thanks! Patrick Printz Network Services Quinsigamond Community College 670 West Boylston Street Worcester, MA 01606-2092 508-854-7517 "When your heart speaks, take good notes." - Judith Campbell From: Lou H. Goddard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:44 AM To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List Subject: RE: [enterasys] One switch or two? Pat, It depends on your requirements. Are there any technical reasons that absolutely require you to have two physical switches? I believe you pay service contracts on a per-chassis basis with Enterasys. Enhanced routing and user-per-port licenses are also sold per chassis. From a financial perspective I would opt to consolidate. I run a network with several N7s. The physical buildings are designed such that I can reach every desktop from the data center with a single run of ethernet. This makes all of our data drops home runs. In my specific case, splitting out all of the workstations to different physical switches would be more complex and costly than just letting them terminate on the N7s with the servers. If you're going to mix them make sure to isolate the servers to a memorable location on the switch. If you need to run some command on a large amount of ports you don't want to have to remember to skip certain ports that may have servers on them. I separate servers from workstations at the blade level. Thanks, Lou Goddard PS - Another great reason to consolidate: You'll be able to send me the retired N1 so I can throw away the HP switch I'm using at home. ________________________________ From: Patrick Printz <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 5/13/2009 7:33am To: Enterasys Customer Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: [enterasys] One switch or two? Hello, We currently have an N1 chassis and an E7 chassis, with only 2 blades in it, that we are thinking of combining into an N5. The N1 is for servers and the E7 is used for workstations. I am wondering what people consider best practice in this situation. Is having the servers on one blade and the workstations on separate blades, but all in the same chassis, considered bad practice? Should we continue to have a separate chassis for the servers and the workstations. Thanks in advance. Patrick Printz Network Services Quinsigamond Community College 670 West Boylston Street Worcester, MA 01606-2092 508-854-7517 "When your heart speaks, take good notes." - Judith Campbell * --To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] * --To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] ------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE --------------- This message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged confidential information protected by law. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this message is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of this message. ------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE --------------- -------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
