[c-nsp] 3560 vs 4948 for Datacenter / iSCSI

[jim bartus]

4948 gets you redundant power and the option for a 10GE uplink.  I just
couldn't stomach the cost.

-jim

On 1/25/07, Raj Patel <Raj.Patel at tec.govt.nz> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just seeking feedback on using a pair of 3560's vs a single 4948 at our
> datacenter for our server / san backbone.
>
> >From what I can tell the 4948 is superior (fully non-blocking) but the
> for the same cost I can get a pair of 3560's which would provide better
> resiliancy / multi-pathing.
>
> We'd probably hang about 10 systems off the device - if we used a
> dedicated storage network + redundant connections back to the LAN we
> start to use up a lot of ports really quickly.
>
> Any opinions or feedback on which would be preferential would be
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Raj.
>
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