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    gabi, pretty much as depicted in the last illustration. I'll have 10Gb NIC's in the hosts/SAN but will use as 1Gb. I'm sure I'll direct connect via 10Gb before we go into production just to get some benchmarking and put some theory into practice but we're holding off on purchasing 10Gb switches...
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    Thank you for the excellent response CoW. I'm ready to pull the trigger on this and get this vm environment up and running!
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    a bit more info... I had a discussion with the aforementioned 3P vendor about his recommended 10Gb vs y'alls recommendation of 1Gb. I sent his the same aggregate perfmon charts I posted earlier and this was his nutshell response. "I have seen a number of systems with very fast drives and...
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    I think this should cover the SAN yes? As far as the 48p L3 Gb Switch, I may end up just having a spare on standby, ready with the loaded config. That's the plan for the other 5 24p L3's; to have saved configs for each site and load it to the spare and deliver if needed. If I put in a second...
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    Grentz you are quite right. This is much bigger than my lab here but I also realize this setup is quite the entry level VM environment for production and you guys are probably accustomed to dealing with much grander setups. Just trying to get my ducks in a row :) So, how's everyone feeling...
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    Since I won't be using FT, I'm not going to be able to SLA 0 downtime so the SAN becomes less of an issue. As stated earlier, we have two HA/DR devices that are application aware and backup via VSC. I can bring any of the servers online in a matter of minutes in the HA VM (or DR VM if the HA...
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    I was originally looking into the EqualLogic but my 3P contact swears by the NX3200, has put many of them out and sent me the following from his 3200 in his lab. You're pretty close on list, cost to me is a bit over $10 Here is some performance numbers for it So since I'm saving a...
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    So there's really no point in having more than 2 1Gb's in the VM traffic vSwitch correct? I'll have the capability but sounds like adding 12-16 x 1Gb is wasted overkill. Here's a screencap of an aggregate perfmon report for 3 current main production servers. 1. 1003 Server - PDC, file...
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    scratch that, you already answered it 2x1Gb per vSwitch vSwitch0 - Management vSwitch1 - VMotion vSwitch2 - NFS vSwitch3 - VM Traffic see what I mean :)
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    oh I can go with 1Gb right now without anything extra as I've already got 1Gb, both L2 and L3 in place. The 125MB/s to a VM is not the issue, it's the aggregate of multiple (10) VM's accessing the datastore at the same time. Perhaps what I'll do is still spec the hosts with 4 x 10Gb and fill...
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    It just blows my mind that a 10Gb switch will cost more than the NAS itself. So what specific switches are you guys using? If I look at the Dell PowerConnects for example, it looks like I'd need the 8024 and it comes with an $18K price tag for one, plus the sfp modules/cables. Granted my cost...
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    like so
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    VM and it's capabilities are simply amazing but man oh man there are so many options and potential configurations it can get mind boggling. Okay so I'm over FT. We already use other devices for HA/Backup and DR/backup of that HA on a remote site so if one of our servers die now, I can bring it...
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    Thanks for your input so far, great food for thought. I thought FT/vMotion traffic went across the management network and having 10 VM's replicating would be better to have them on 10Gb. It's not that a $10K switch is too expensive, it's that I didn't want to spend that if it weren't...
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    Greetings fellow VMers. I wanted to see if I could pick your experience and comment on our soon to be setup as well as enlighten me on a few items. We are going to migrate many of our servers into VMs and we are currently leaning towards the following 2 x Intel® Xeon® E5-2690 2.90GHz, 20M...
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