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      scottalanmiller
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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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        scottalanmiller
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        Might as well loop in StorageCraft themselves too: @Steven

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          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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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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            Dashrender
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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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              scottalanmiller
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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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                Dashrender
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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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                  scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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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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                    DustinB3403
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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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                      Dashrender
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                      How many VM hosts do you have?

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                        DustinB3403
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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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                          DustinB3403
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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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                            coliver @DustinB3403
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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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                              DustinB3403
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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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                                coliver @DustinB3403
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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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                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  Likely four ports won't be enough.

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                                    DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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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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                                      scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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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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                                        DustinB3403
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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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                                          coliver
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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.

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                                            scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                            @DustinB3403 said:

                                            Cost consciousness.

                                            Is there that much added value in doubling what we have for those "if" events.

                                            NICs and switches tend to die and it doubles throughput.

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