Hi Stephan, Generally you cannot go wrong with Intel NICs. I've used them a great deal with in and out of AoE SANs and been pleased.
Switchwise I have had great success with the Dell 6224 and 6248 as well has the HP 2910 in the gigabit realm. These are the access layer switches that do well in AoE SANs. All datacenter class switches from the major vendors e.g. Cisco 4500 and up, Juniper EX4200 and up, Enteresys S-series and various Brocades should do fine but I've not used/tested them. The 10G realm seems to do well regardless of vendor/model but I have hands on experience with 10G switches from Arista. Cheers! On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Stephan Fabel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > what are your recommendations for hardware when using AoE (jumbo > frames > 9k, etc.)? Seems like the more I look into 'jumbo frames', > the less concrete information there is, especially datasheets for NICs > are pretty vague (e.g. "Jumbo Frame support? Yes", then I test it to > find out that it only supports up to 4k...). > > Also which switches for the AoE storage network do you recommend? > > Thanks in advance! > > Stephan > > -- > Stephan Fabel > > Systems Administrator | x67939 | Wist 235 > College of Education > University of Hawaii at Manoa > > "I believe that education must be the first step to computer > security." -- Jimi Loo > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
