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      1337 @siringo
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      @siringo said in Simple comms. What to do?:

      I have a site where the two main servers (Windows) are located about 15 'cable' metres from the switch (switch A) they plug into.

      Each server has 3 NICs.

      I'm wondering what others would do?

      Would you run 6 cables from the servers to switch A

      or

      place a switch (switch B) near the servers and run 1 cable from switch B to switch A?

      Thanks for any help.

      15 meters (50ft) is not very long. No need for another switch.

      The proper way IMHO is to set up a couple of patch panels. Use rackmounted if you have racks otherwise wall mounted.

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        1337 @1337
        last edited by 1337

        @pete-s said in Simple comms. What to do?:

        @siringo said in Simple comms. What to do?:

        I have a site where the two main servers (Windows) are located about 15 'cable' metres from the switch (switch A) they plug into.

        Each server has 3 NICs.

        I'm wondering what others would do?

        Would you run 6 cables from the servers to switch A

        or

        place a switch (switch B) near the servers and run 1 cable from switch B to switch A?

        Thanks for any help.

        15 meters (50ft) is not very long. No need for another switch.

        The proper way IMHO is to set up a couple of patch panels. Use rackmounted if you have racks otherwise wall mounted.

        Sorry if this is obvious. Just easier with a picture than text.
        4bbf8545-aa28-4e6b-a857-408a35fdfae6-image.png

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @siringo
          last edited by

          @siringo said in Simple comms. What to do?:

          Would you run 6 cables from the servers to switch A
          or
          place a switch (switch B) near the servers and run 1 cable from switch B to switch A?

          Run cables. The fewer switches, the better.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @gjacobse
            last edited by

            @gjacobse said in Simple comms. What to do?:

            @siringo

            I believe the easiest and fastest:

            Switch at the servers and fibre to the main switch. You may need to upgrade switch a, but it’s worth it.

            Why is fiber involved? No distances here that make copper a challenge.

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            • dave247D
              dave247 @siringo
              last edited by dave247

              @siringo said in Simple comms. What to do?:

              I have a site where the two main servers (Windows) are located about 15 'cable' metres from the switch (switch A) they plug into.

              Each server has 3 NICs.

              I'm wondering what others would do?

              Would you run 6 cables from the servers to switch A

              or

              place a switch (switch B) near the servers and run 1 cable from switch B to switch A?

              Thanks for any help.

              If it's just two servers and there's no expectation for growth, I'd probably just run cables to the switches.

              In my server cage at work, we have a bunch of servers, so I have everything going to a 2-stack of switches (with dedicated UPS) and then fiber trunked to the main switch stack that everything else in our environment connects to. This helps keeps thing neat and clean with regards to cables in the server room and everything on the server LAN can still function if there is an outage somewhere else. It all depends on how you want to have it set up with regards to pricing, redundancy and availability.

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              • travisdh1T
                travisdh1 @1337
                last edited by

                @pete-s said in Simple comms. What to do?:

                @pete-s said in Simple comms. What to do?:

                @siringo said in Simple comms. What to do?:

                I have a site where the two main servers (Windows) are located about 15 'cable' metres from the switch (switch A) they plug into.

                Each server has 3 NICs.

                I'm wondering what others would do?

                Would you run 6 cables from the servers to switch A

                or

                place a switch (switch B) near the servers and run 1 cable from switch B to switch A?

                Thanks for any help.

                15 meters (50ft) is not very long. No need for another switch.

                The proper way IMHO is to set up a couple of patch panels. Use rackmounted if you have racks otherwise wall mounted.

                Sorry if this is obvious. Just easier with a picture than text.
                4bbf8545-aa28-4e6b-a857-408a35fdfae6-image.png

                Everything that picture shows tells me you should have a single switch directly connected to the servers.

                Do you have lots of devices not shown that use all the ports on all the switches? Even if you do, servers should still be connected to the first switch if at all possible.

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                • siringoS
                  siringo
                  last edited by

                  Thanks everyone for the comments & suggestions, it's been a great help.

                  Looks like I'm OK with cables.

                  Thanks again.

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @gjacobse
                    last edited by

                    @gjacobse said in Simple comms. What to do?:

                    Switch at the servers and fibre to the main switch.

                    This is only useful if you have better than gigabit GBIC for the fiber. Otherwise it is no different than a cable.

                    Most likely hsi existing swithc cannot support anything better than gigabit GBIC.

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                    • gotwfG
                      gotwf @1337
                      last edited by

                      @pete-s +1 on the patch panels and the catV back to main switch for low cost budget solution.

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                      • jclambertJ
                        jclambert @siringo
                        last edited by jclambert

                        @siringo said in Simple comms. What to do?:

                        I have a site where the two main servers (Windows) are located about 15 'cable' metres from the switch (switch A) they plug into.

                        Each server has 3 NICs.

                        I'm wondering what others would do?

                        Would you run 6 cables from the servers to switch A

                        or

                        place a switch (switch B) near the servers and run 1 cable from switch B to switch A?

                        Thanks for any help.

                        Introducing new hardware (a switch) may be a stopgap, if the end intent running cables. Don't add a hardware failure point. Less is more as they say

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