Just to put in my two cents. I have 12 Dell 6248 connected via 10g to a core 10g Brocade switch and haven't had any problem. They work very well, are super reliable, and are easy to manage. I do recommend using the latest firmware off of dell's website though!!
My only complaint is they do not have dual power supplies though you can get a 1u dell power thingy that can act as a second PS for 3 or 4 of them. But it takes up another U of space, id much rather have an option to put in another PS. I don't do anything crazy with them, just basic snmp stats, vlan groups, and some trunk/port-channel groups, and they do all that very well. They're great top of rack switches - which is what we use them for. For the price they are hard to beat. liam On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Dan Bretherton <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > I need to buy a bigger GigE switch for my GlusterFS cluster and I am trying > to decide whether or not a much more expensive one would be justified. I > have limited experience with networking so I don't know if it would be > appropriate to spend £500, £1500 or £3500 for a 48-port switch. Those rough > costs are based on a comparison of 3 Dell Powerconnect switches: the 5548 > (bigger version of what we have now), the 6248 and the 7048. The servers in > the cluster are nothing special - mostly Supermicro with SATA drives and > 1GigE network adapters. I can only justify spending more than ~£500 if I > can be sure that users would notice the difference. Some of the users' > applications do lots of small reads and writes, and they do run much more > slowly if all the servers are not connected to the same switch, as is the > case now while I don't have a big enough switch. Any advice or comments > would be much appreciated. > > Regards > Dan. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list [email protected] http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
