They work great. Unfortunately we bought at the start of the junos 10.x series and were forced to do some upgrades. Which will reboot your stack. Rolling upgrades have been promised for a year but haven't arrived for the 4200 yet.
Have to say the cli is a dream to work with. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 30 jun 2011, at 20:24, Ben N <[email protected]> wrote: Hmm i haven't had this problem before. I know you have to be careful on JUNOS upgrade, you don't want to use their latest and greatest for sure. I have 8 x 4200 switches in my DC with many VMware hosts, no issues so far, they are under on VC. I was thinking of changing to two VCs like you have just so i can have that redundancy in check too. Good to hear other using Juniper out there :) On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Anders Blomgren <[email protected]>wrote: > Used to have that setup. After the third complete vSphere cluster shutdown > due to junos upgrade I switched to link aggregation instead of a single > virtual chassis. 8 switches in 2 vc's with a 2x10Gb lag removed that > particular pain. Given the performance of the 4200 we use this setup for > vmotion, ft, management and standard vm networks as well. > > -Anders > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 30 jun 2011, at 15:52, Ben N <[email protected]> wrote: > > thanks guys. I think i ended up getting a pair of 4200 Junipers with a VCP > cable.. I just can't sell my boss on Dell switches. > > -Ben > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Kim Longenbaugh <<[email protected]> > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Avaya 5600-series switches work great too. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Paul Hutchings [ <[email protected]> >> [email protected]] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:04 PM >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* RE: Opinion on iSCSI switch to use for Equalogic SAN >> >> My only input would be to keep in mind that most of the documentation >> you see from Dell on Equallogic, particularly configuration guides, is often >> written with PowerConnect’s in mind, especially if the guide goes down to >> syntax level. >> >> >> >> So long as you’re using non-blocking switches with low latency and support >> for things like jumbo frames and flow control you have plenty of choice and >> odds are it’ll all work – for our LeftHand we use HP switches, for our >> Equallogic we use PowerConnect, I’m sure either could be substituted for the >> other with little drama. >> >> *From:* Ben N [mailto: <[email protected]>[email protected]] >> >> *Sent:* 28 June 2011 20:46 >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Opinion on iSCSI switch to use for Equalogic SAN >> >> >> >> 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? 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