So I'm speccing out an IT upgrade for the company I work at. We're a film production and we're thinking about making the move to 10G and part of that is figuring out kind of switch will actually work.
One of the things I've been hammering home is that the connection from the Storage system to the client network actually has to be a wide enough to support the speeds you want to deliver to the clients.
If we were to get an 8-port 10G switch and plug in 4x clients but only one uplink, then we'd only be feeding in 10g of storage bandwidth that's then divided between the 4x clients. So in order to provide 4x 10G connections to my clients I would have to run 4x 10G LACP/LAG into to the switch from the storage system.
The better solution here is running QSFP+/40GbE from the storage to switch serving clients as uplink.
I'm having trouble finding a switch that does that other than Gnodal or Quantum. Is there something at a semi-reasonable price that would have say 2x QSFP+ uplink ports and 16x 10GbE ports?
Thanks!
One of the things I've been hammering home is that the connection from the Storage system to the client network actually has to be a wide enough to support the speeds you want to deliver to the clients.
If we were to get an 8-port 10G switch and plug in 4x clients but only one uplink, then we'd only be feeding in 10g of storage bandwidth that's then divided between the 4x clients. So in order to provide 4x 10G connections to my clients I would have to run 4x 10G LACP/LAG into to the switch from the storage system.
The better solution here is running QSFP+/40GbE from the storage to switch serving clients as uplink.
I'm having trouble finding a switch that does that other than Gnodal or Quantum. Is there something at a semi-reasonable price that would have say 2x QSFP+ uplink ports and 16x 10GbE ports?
Thanks!
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