[c-nsp] Cisco switch for basic iSCSI

[Nick Hilliard]

On 13/03/2014 08:32, Nikolai Nespor wrote:
> Take a look at the Nexus 3524. You get 48 ports with 24 licensed, so
> there is room to grow without doing a rip-and-replace. Pricing is quite
> reasonable.

the buffers on these switches are very small: 6M per group of 16 ports.
This means that you can easily drop packets due to congestion.   The 4500X
has a shared buffer pool of 32m for the box, which provides a good deal
more flexibility.

Nick