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

[Gergely Antal]

Did you look at the c2350 also?
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10116/index.html

Brian Landers wrote:
> 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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