BackUp device for local or colo storage
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If you identify a single server that needs more speed, you can go up to triple or quadruple GigE if need be before making a leap to 10GigE connections.
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You might find a single server or two with 10GigE needs, but likely not the majority. Spend opportunistically.
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Might as well loop in StorageCraft themselves too: @Steven
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@scottalanmiller said:
If you identify a single server that needs more speed, you can go up to triple or quadruple GigE if need be before making a leap to 10GigE connections.
What's the current cost for a 10 GigE card. Assuming he doesn't already have open ports of GigE, he'll need to buy regardless.
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I'm surprised, an unmanged 10 GigE swith 8 port is $760
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122529
A two port card from Dell is $650. Third party might be considerably less.
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Yup, I've been pushing Netgear 10GigE for a long time now. I think that Dell has some decent 10GigE fiber switches for around $2K as well.
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Damn the 12 port vs the 8 port is double the price of the 8 port, $1450.. ouch!
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@Dashrender said:
Damn the 12 port vs the 8 port is double the price of the 8 port, $1450.. ouch!
I bet if you check the backplane gets a lot faster.
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It might be the route we go with, 10GigE switch with bonded NICS or dedicated 10GigE NICS on each host.
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How many VM hosts do you have?
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1 Currently that is stand alone.
The equipment we're looking into would be a dual host setup. "Primary Primary" so to speak.
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A long time ago I remember seeing some documentation (sales pamphlet) for industrial 10G switches. Small little units, 5 ports.
I can remember for the life of me their name though as this was years ago.
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@DustinB3403 said:
A long time ago I remember seeing some documentation (sales pamphlet) for industrial 10G switches. Small little units, 5 ports.
I can remember for the life of me their name though as this was years ago.
Netgear has some fairly inexpensive managed switches that have 10G uplink ports. I think in the 800-900$ range. You could look into those if you don't need a ton of 10Gbe ports.
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Yeah I'm thinking we won't need many.
Just device to device basically.
From XenServer host to onsite backup device.
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@DustinB3403 said:
Yeah I'm thinking we won't need many.
Just device to device basically.
From XenServer host to onsite backup device.
Yep, I can't remember the model number but Netgear, in the last year, released a model with 4 10Gbe ports.
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Likely four ports won't be enough.
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@scottalanmiller Even if we spent for the 10G NICs in the servers?
2 Hypervisors 1 Backup device.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller Even if we spent for the 10G NICs in the servers?
2 Hypervisors 1 Backup device.
Oh, so two servers and one backup device and one uplink to the rest of the network? Four ports might do it then. But.... no redundancy at all?
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Cost consciousness.
Is there that much added value in doubling what we have for those "if" events.
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Nevermind, I was thinking about the S3300 series, they have 2 uplink ports. There are 2 10Gb copper or fiber ports that you can use interchangeably... but only two at a time. They do have the XT712T but I have a feeling that may be a bit too expensive.
