I currently have a 1905 running pfsense firewall, 3 1950 running esxi, and 1 2050 running openfiler. the openfiler and esxi nodes are connected via qlogic fibr cards. I also have a cisco ws-c2960g-24tc-l switch for networking.
I ordered a c6100 xs23-ty3 to replace them all. so I have a c6100 and I want to run pfsense on node 1, open filer on node 2 (6 drives shared storage), and esxi on node 3 and 4 (3 drives each local storage). All of the OSs will run on USB 16 gb flash drives.
my question is what would be the most cost effective way to connect the storage node to the esxi nodes as the qlogic fibr card I have now (pci-e) are not half hieght, half lentgh cards.
I was thinking with going with infiniband, a 1 port card in each esxi nodes and a 2 port card in the storage node. but I don't know whitch cards will fit and I believe I can connect the cards without using a switch but I have no experience with infiniband.
EDIT: or are there qlogic cards that would fit in the c6100 as I am more familiar with setting those up with the software. Do infiniband cards use WWN? like I said I have never used infiniband cards before. also the c6100 has both the pci-e and the mezzanine options. which would be better?
What would your recommendation be?
I ordered a c6100 xs23-ty3 to replace them all. so I have a c6100 and I want to run pfsense on node 1, open filer on node 2 (6 drives shared storage), and esxi on node 3 and 4 (3 drives each local storage). All of the OSs will run on USB 16 gb flash drives.
my question is what would be the most cost effective way to connect the storage node to the esxi nodes as the qlogic fibr card I have now (pci-e) are not half hieght, half lentgh cards.
I was thinking with going with infiniband, a 1 port card in each esxi nodes and a 2 port card in the storage node. but I don't know whitch cards will fit and I believe I can connect the cards without using a switch but I have no experience with infiniband.
EDIT: or are there qlogic cards that would fit in the c6100 as I am more familiar with setting those up with the software. Do infiniband cards use WWN? like I said I have never used infiniband cards before. also the c6100 has both the pci-e and the mezzanine options. which would be better?
What would your recommendation be?
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