[c-nsp] iSCSI, port buffers, and small switches

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Tue Jul 26 11:28:29 EDT 2011


On 26/07/11 16:16, Chuck Church wrote:

> I guess what I'm asking, for those with 3750/3750E/3750X and seeing
> performance issues, is it because you're a much larger setup, or am I likely
> to regret the 3750s as well?  I don't have much baseline on this now, as
> we're adding more hosts and VMs, so current numbers will grow.

We see problems with 3750 buffering at 100meg, on lightly loaded 
switches acting in a CPE role (2-4 ports live).

I would avoid them in the datacentre, especially for storage.


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