[c-nsp] 10Gb for VSAN

[Nick Cutting]

Nexus 93xx are also suitable for this task. We have tested VSAN on these.
They talk about buffers in the VSAN Docs?

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From: cisco-nsp <cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net> On Behalf Of Tom Hill
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 8:20 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 10Gb for VSAN

This message originates from outside of your organisation.

On 24/07/18 23:02, Michael Malitsky wrote:
> I have a Cat 4506 (Sup7L-E) serving a medium-sized business.  We are 
> looking to overhaul the server side and add VSAN on 4-5 hosts, for 
> which we'll need a handful (8-10) 10Gb ports.  I see the only option 
> for the 4506 chassis is the 4712-SFP module, and the combination seems 
> underwhelming, even before I look up the pricing. As I understand it, 
> the TOR option from Cisco would be a Nexus, which seems overkill for 
> the application?

There are suitably-reliable 20-port Nexus 5010s you can pick-up for peanuts. I don't believe you can still get support, but maybe you can get the latest software via PSIRT.

Lots of noise made and power utilised with those, so someone with more money would obviously punt you towards the [actually white-box] N3k line for Cisco hardware that does the same thing "in support".

Certainly, that Cat 4500 wasn't made for it with a 48Gbit/sec backplane.
Amazingly, the Cat 4500-X seems to have better density, as well as being from the same gen of supervisor.


> For those who have invented this wheel already, please share the 
> wisdom. For now, I am seriously considering putting in a 10Gb Ubiquity 
> switch...

If that's all you need to do this 'VSAN' thing, then why not. See-also:

 Cisco 3650/3850
 Cisco 4500-X
 Extreme X620/X670/X690
 Various Quantas, EdgeCores, Mellanox, ad infinitum.
 Netgear? lol

Have fun!

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Tom
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