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

[arne.svennevik at met.no]

----- "Nick Hilliard" <nick at inex.ie> 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.

Looking at the specs an alternative would be a central 5010 and two 2148 FEX as top-of-rack 1G. Using up to 40 of the 1G ports and 4 x 10G for uplink to N5K would make it line-rate, right? Has anyone got any experiences with this setup?

Arne