New Infiniband switch advice

[serverx]

Hello, i have to buy a new switch infiniband, i searched on ebay and i found a lot of different models... somebody can help me to choose between the old and solid Voltaire 4036 and the Mellanox MIS5035Q ?
Thanks

 

[cesmith9999]

what switches are you using now? and what cards are you using?

Chris

 

[serverx]

actually i have 2 intel true scale 12300 both licensed subnet manager, one dedicated to the storage connectivity and one to the esxi cluster nodes.... i would like to add a full redundancy adding a second HCA to each storage and the esxi nodes..... as HCA im using connectx-2 MHQH19B-XTR.
Thanks

 

[T_Minus]

For the $ hard to pass the 4036

 

[serverx]

Sorry T_minus...... i didn't understand

 

[T_Minus]

For what the 4036 cost it's hard to pass it up as it is such a great bargain.

I have 2, well, er, 1... and a 4036E Great switches.

 

[serverx]

Thanks T_Minus, which spf+ module you used to connect the 4036E to the network switch ?