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

[Brian Landers]

I realize this is cisco-nsp, but does anyone have any opinions on the Force
10 S-series for top-of-rack?  Especially for iSCSI SAN.  I've long been
frustrated with Cisco's lack of a cost-effective "48 ports of gigE with a
10ge uplink" switch.  I don't really *need* a $12,000 layer 3 switch (or
two) at the top of every rack in my data center!


On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Andrew White <adwhite at inchix.net> wrote:

> 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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