[c-nsp] 3750G vs. Nexus for a SAN

Jason Plank jmplank at gmail.com
Fri Nov 6 14:40:25 EST 2009


Also, there are caveats with the N5K's. Only certain ports can be used
for 1G connectivity. For instance, on the 5020 only the first 16 ports
can be used.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Jason Gurtz <jasongurtz at npumail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Incidentally, if you're planning to use the N5K as a fancy 1G switch,
>> note
>> that the system will change the switching mode from cut-through to
>> store-n-forward for GE ports; cut-through is only supported for 10G
>> transceivers.  This may matter for iSCSI.
>
> Thanks for that, I had been wondering about the 1G situation.
>
> ~JasonG
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