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

[Andrew White]

Any reason why you wouldn't go for fcoe on nexus 5k? :)



On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Jason Gurtz <jasongurtz at npumail.com> wrote:
>> Not sure that you want to go with Nexus at this point. Its got some
>> really nice features, however we keep running into code bugs . Not just
>> stuff that's obscure and shows up in certain situations but real show-
>> stoppers like being unable to form port-channels with HP blade servers.
>
> Interesting assessment and sorry to hear about the microsoftish
> experience.  We're not intending to use blades (ESX Server 4 on a number
> of HP DL380G6 is likely) and would like to do cross-box etherchannels for
> redundancy.
>
> Jeff mentioned the 4948 of which the 10G version looks great since we're
> wanting to mirror the san off-site over fiber.
>
> There's still a chance that fiber channel will happen though it looks like
> that doesn't really make sense in this day and age.  Here, vendors are
> pushing the MDS9124 box.
>
> Thanks for the responses so far.
>
> ~JasonG
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