hotcrandel
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I imagine for some of you this would be a fairly basic question;
I deployed a ESX cluster a few years ago on a 2960s stack. HP G6 dual quad core, each server with 8 1gb NIC's. HP P4300 storage
It was relatively low traffic and seemed to work well from what I can tell.
I've since added a new Tegile Zebi SAN product with SSD caching and whatnot, as well as added Veeam backups.
My 2960's seem to be dropping a lot of traffic, in particular from the Zebi. I've read that this is because that iSCSI traffic, especially a faster san can burst traffic too fast for the switch.
I've been looking up this and other people seem to have the same dilemma; latency and packet drops from 2960's, and moving into a better switch or two.
Would a 3560g be better? Everyone seems to say that 4948's are better than those as well; Looking at the prices on ebay and things they don't seem to be too expensive. ($1000-->$2500)
Any other advice is welcome as well.
I deployed a ESX cluster a few years ago on a 2960s stack. HP G6 dual quad core, each server with 8 1gb NIC's. HP P4300 storage
It was relatively low traffic and seemed to work well from what I can tell.
I've since added a new Tegile Zebi SAN product with SSD caching and whatnot, as well as added Veeam backups.
My 2960's seem to be dropping a lot of traffic, in particular from the Zebi. I've read that this is because that iSCSI traffic, especially a faster san can burst traffic too fast for the switch.
I've been looking up this and other people seem to have the same dilemma; latency and packet drops from 2960's, and moving into a better switch or two.
Would a 3560g be better? Everyone seems to say that 4948's are better than those as well; Looking at the prices on ebay and things they don't seem to be too expensive. ($1000-->$2500)
Any other advice is welcome as well.