[c-nsp] Few questions regarding fixed vs modular and when which is better.

[Shane Short]

I've had pretty good success doing this in the past, however, I've run  
double the density and split it over two racks.
Ie, 24 Servers per rack, so a 48port switch per rack, with 48 ties  
between the rack to tie it all together, each server would hit the  
switch in it's own rack, then tie over to the adjacent rack.

Idea generally behind this was to have the servers/switches on  
opposing phases to eliminate power problems, without having to get  
Dual Power supplies in the switches themselves.

-Shane


On 29/08/2008, at 6:45 PM, Dean Smith wrote:

> Surely 2 basic Switches - With Servers dual homed across giving you
> independent uplinks to the core, dual control planes and dual power  
> etc
> gives far better resilience at the price point than a simple switch  
> with an
> extra PSU ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Gert Doering
> Sent: 29 August 2008 08:34
> To: Pete Templin
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Few questions regarding fixed vs modular and  
> when which
> is better.
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:56:51AM -0500, Pete Templin wrote:
>> Have you looked at their product line lately?  I attended one of  
>> their
>> LAN Switching Update events, and learned a lot about their new
>> products, such as 1U 3560E models with 24 or 48 10/100/1000 ports and
>> two X2 10G uplinks and dual power.  Might that suffice?
>
> Still "full L3" with the L3 price tag.
>
> Something like a 2960G-24TC with dual power would be cool.
>
> gert
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