RE: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-07 Thread Keith Medcalf
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Kevin L. Karch > wrote: > > Andrew > > > > We offer several solutions that meet your initial requirements. Can you > tell me if this is a multi rack deployment and a few more details? > > > > If you would like we could have a call with one of our applications > en

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-05 Thread Peter Nowak
Dell Force10 S4810 is a decent ToR switch: 48 dual-speed 1/10GbE (SFP+) ports and four 40GbE (QSFP+) uplinks Peter > > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Eric Germann wrote: > >> Colleagues, >> >> I'm looking for a recommendation on a smallish 10G Ethernet switch for a >> small virtualizatio

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-05 Thread Darius Seroka
The Juniper ex4500/4550 could work, small chassis, can be made part of a virtual chassis. Works well in an enterprise setup but can cause configuration headaches if within a service provider environment where vlans need to be translated. Darius On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Eric Germann wrote:

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-05 Thread Gopi
ARISTA 7xxx series would be one of the options to consider cheers! Gopi... __ please ignore typo's if any... sent from handheld device __ Eugeniu Patrascu wrote: >On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Eric Germann wrote: >> Colleagues,

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-05 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Eric Germann wrote: > Colleagues, > > I'm looking for a recommendation on a smallish 10G Ethernet switch for a > small virtualization/SAN implementation (4-5 hosts, 2 SAN boxes) over > iSCSI with some legacy boxes on GigE. > > Preferably > > - 8-16 10G ports > - sev

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Bryan Tong
I have used the summit x650s for cloud and they work fine for public and SAN traffic on the same switch. I have seen then as low as 7k if you can work with extreme directly. The only downside being the configuration for large VLAN amounts. Also netgear makes the xsm7224s which does everything the

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Andrew Latham
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Kevin L. Karch wrote: > Andrew > > We offer several solutions that meet your initial requirements. Can you tell > me if this is a multi rack deployment and a few more details? > > If you would like we could have a call with one of our applications engineers > and

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Eric Germann wrote: >> I'm looking for a recommendation on a smallish 10G Ethernet switch for a >> small virtualization/SAN implementation (4-5 hosts, 2 SAN boxes) over >> iSCSI with some legacy boxes on GigE.

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 02/11/2012 20:10, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > The biggest difference between the TOR-style switches and chassis > offerings, aside from the obvious, is buffers. All the TOR-type 10G > switches have really small buffers and that can be a performance issue > for iSCSI when utilization is high not part

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Eric Germann wrote: > I'm looking for a recommendation on a smallish 10G Ethernet switch for a > small virtualization/SAN implementation (4-5 hosts, 2 SAN boxes) over > iSCSI with some legacy boxes on GigE. > 1Gbps. Assessing whether it is better to go 10G now v

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Dan Olson
You may want to take a look at the Brocade VDX 6720, it provides 16 10gb ports, with 8 ports on demand with addl license. They are very reasonable, esp. if you only need 16 ports. Maintenance costs are less than cisco. - Original Message - > From: "Eric Germann" > To: nanog@nanog.

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Andrew Latham
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Mike Hale wrote: > If you're looking at sub 50k, the Nexus 5k isn't a terrible option. > It gives you 32 10Gig SFP slots for ~$25,000 or less if you don't mind > used from ebay. > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Andrew Latham wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:1

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Mike Hale
If you're looking at sub 50k, the Nexus 5k isn't a terrible option. It gives you 32 10Gig SFP slots for ~$25,000 or less if you don't mind used from ebay. On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Andrew Latham wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Eric Germann wrote: >> Colleagues, >> >> I'm looking

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Andrew Latham
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Eric Germann wrote: > Colleagues, > > I'm looking for a recommendation on a smallish 10G Ethernet switch for a > small virtualization/SAN implementation (4-5 hosts, 2 SAN boxes) over > iSCSI with some legacy boxes on GigE. > > Preferably > > - 8-16 10G ports > - se