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

[Andrew White]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Jason Gurtz <jasongurtz at npumail.com> wrote:
>> Any reason why you wouldn't go for fcoe on nexus 5k? :)
>
> It does look like that is what the box is really for.  To answer the
> question, it all depends on what SAN goes in.  A lot of the newer stuff
> with better value is iSCSI only and eschews FC in any form.
>

Well i'm not to sure on the better value point - I doubt it will be
long before netapp and the likes pop a fcoe cna into their kit.
Current prices of gen-2 cna's are not really any more expensive than a
dual port 10ge card so why wouldn't you go fcoe?

No ip, no tcp windows, no need to chew cpu on hosts no managing authentication

> Maybe I better question to ask is how does the nexus 5k fare against 49xx
> switch doing iSCSI?

I don't think it would make much difference really, 5k will have less
latency not that it really matters for iscsi :)



>
> ~JasonG
> _______________________________________________
> cisco-nsp mailing list  cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp
> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
>