I'm planning to go to the 10Gb way for three servers (two ZFS boxes and one windows machine) backupping stuff between them and serving several clients, what do you think of the Netgear GS728TXS? It's way cheaper than the Cisco SG500X-24, is it missing something important or we pay the name?
Since 10GBase-T need power hungry switches (=noise and power consumption i would like to avoid as much as possible) and i as wanted more than 8 ports (=XS708E seems the only decent alternative, the XS721T consuming much more power and being much more noisy) for more clients i though of chosing SFP+ instead.
I think of getting three
Supermicro AOC-STGN-I2S and three
Supermicro SFP+ CBL-0348L 3m, is there some compatibility issues or problems i didn't take into account between all this hardware?
I will use OmniOS and nappit to run the ZFS servers, it seems Illumos is
compatible with "Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFP+ Network Connection", does that mean the 82599 based
AOC-STGN-I2S is also compatible?
Because it's cheaper than the Intel X520 and i read there's some compatibility issues with non-intel gear on the
newegg review page.