I'll add my recommendation as well. However, the Dell policy on warranty extensions has changed in the last years. PE and PV do go to year 7. Don't know about PC.
If your current network delivers line-rate all the way like most (but not all) Juniper and Cisco stuff do then the additional cost of management for yet another product line might be more than the added cost for extending your current datacenter network. This is the path that we took. -Anders On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ben N <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was thinking of getting a pair of the PowerConnect 7024 switches for > our > > SAN. > > Has anyone had any good or bad experience with a setup like this? It will > > only be used for iSCSI. I could go the Juniper or Cicso route, but don't > > need all those extra features or cost. > > I second the recommendation of HP ProCurve. Very nice features, > much lower cost, lifetime warranty. If you still can't swing the > cost, get some used off eBay -- the warranty and license are still > good (*cough* unlike Cisco *cough*). > > Dell will not extend the warranty on their products past five years. > Not for any price. Do you still plan on having your SAN in five > years? > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
