Hello. First, please excuse me for my not good English. ServeTheHome.com is the best forum on home networks, where most of the participants smart and competent people.
I'm building new home network and need you advices.
Now I have:
Dell C6100 - don't use it yet, but probably will use for vsphere
HP DL320s - video surveillance server for 12 IP cameras with RAID5 (P400)
Supermicro Dual Xeon server in 933T chassis - main server
1U Rackable Xeon server with RAID card and expander - for Acronis backups from all PCs and laptops
Raritan 16 port remote IP KVM
Also i have 3 SGI 3016 expanders, which connected to servers. Not yet decided about the software (now it's Win2003, 2008 and Fedora), but most likely Linux on all servers except one (because i have some software only for Windows).
Switches:
HP Procurve 1910-24 and Procurve 3400cl-48, planned to buy another one for Infiniband
Also i have Dell TL2000 LTO4 24 tape autoloader library with FC interface.
I want to connect all servers by Infiniband, here on the forum a lot of answers about Infiniband hardware. But don't imagine the better method to connect all my servers by Infiniband with each other and with TL2000 autoloader, to make it accessible from all servers.
Could I ask for advice how to best combine them? May be there any switch, which allows to connect 4GB FC and Infiniband? Or I need use GBIC for Procurve?
I'm building new home network and need you advices.
Now I have:
Dell C6100 - don't use it yet, but probably will use for vsphere
HP DL320s - video surveillance server for 12 IP cameras with RAID5 (P400)
Supermicro Dual Xeon server in 933T chassis - main server
1U Rackable Xeon server with RAID card and expander - for Acronis backups from all PCs and laptops
Raritan 16 port remote IP KVM
Also i have 3 SGI 3016 expanders, which connected to servers. Not yet decided about the software (now it's Win2003, 2008 and Fedora), but most likely Linux on all servers except one (because i have some software only for Windows).
Switches:
HP Procurve 1910-24 and Procurve 3400cl-48, planned to buy another one for Infiniband
Also i have Dell TL2000 LTO4 24 tape autoloader library with FC interface.
I want to connect all servers by Infiniband, here on the forum a lot of answers about Infiniband hardware. But don't imagine the better method to connect all my servers by Infiniband with each other and with TL2000 autoloader, to make it accessible from all servers.
Could I ask for advice how to best combine them? May be there any switch, which allows to connect 4GB FC and Infiniband? Or I need use GBIC for Procurve?
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