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Some 10Gb love for the home lab!
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Vito_Corleone
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Wow, nice. What do those CNAs go for?
Vito_Corleone
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Even nicer, lol.
RESTfulADI
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Do you get reseller/integrator samples?
Something like that. It depends on the partner but it's usually hard to get equipment outright. Licenses are easy...gear isn't. I have good contacts at Cisco and Qlogic because I help them out and also do things to promote their products. So they help me out when they can.
And thanks to the magic of VMware I just did a no-downtime installation of all 3 adapters...
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not sure, i have to say i know nothing about 10g, looks like it takes a special cable / cord....
I wonder if you could buy "2" and put on in a server and one in another storage server and link to gether for max link..
Ie windows 2008r2 running hyperV then run another machine with iscsi.
Those use CX4 connections..standard connector. You can connect them back to back but those are old cards.
GOD DAM SEXY STUFF!!
10g wow, so nice, to bad the cards are super loud
Cards are loud?
some are, Bluefox showed me some that had fans on them and they were brutal he said!
If some one was to buy the "proper 10g" cards could some one use them with out a switch, and direct connect them so they could link the hyperv server and the storage box using iscsi ?
I like 2008 storage server, works great and i like it, and i run 2008r2 hyper v with 6 virtual machines.
Sorry for thread jacking
The ones I have do not have fans.
slowbiznatch
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Myrinet is horribly inefficient when running with a typical IP infrastructure...
Other suggestions ?
Intel's newer CX4 10gbe pcie card is EXPX9502CX4 and Supermicro has two based on the same intel chipset in pcie: AOC-STG-I2 and uio: AOC-UTG-I2. They all are dual port.
Not 10Gb related...but new lab gear. Synology DS1511+ and 5x2TB Seagate Barracuda LP drives. I already have a DS1010+ that I love. This will be dedicated to media therefore taking the load off the other DS1010+ that I use for my vSphere lab.
Not 10Gb related...but new lab gear. Synology DS1511+ and 5x2TB Seagate Barracuda LP drives. I already have a DS1010+ that I love. This will be dedicated to media therefore taking the load off the other DS1010+ that I use for my vSphere lab.
Looks expensive
Vito_Corleone
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Not 10Gb related...but new lab gear. Synology DS1511+ and 5x2TB Seagate Barracuda LP drives. I already have a DS1010+ that I love. This will be dedicated to media therefore taking the load off the other DS1010+ that I use for my vSphere lab.
I got one of those a few months ago. It's very solid.
Not 10Gb related...but new lab gear. Synology DS1511+ and 5x2TB Seagate Barracuda LP drives. I already have a DS1010+ that I love. This will be dedicated to media therefore taking the load off the other DS1010+ that I use for my vSphere lab.
What kind of performance have you been getting from this setup?
How is your performance?
Vito_Corleone
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good
Performance is very good for this type of setup. It's all limited by the (5) WD Black drives I have in it. For anything sequential I'll max the link no problem. It's been nothing but stable and reliable. Have to say, overall I'm very pleased.