I am about to co-locate some servers at a local data center in order to reduce my power consumption at my house as well as have better networking options (35 meg up at home).
I am planning on doing a half rack for now, i am going to be putting in 6 x Dell R630, some super micro servers and a Mellanox SX6036 40gig switch running IPoIB to handle all storage traffic, each server is equipped with an Intel X540 SFP+ nic's and Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR/QDR QSFP card.
I have gotten most of my setup ready to put in the data center with the exception of the top of rack switch, i would like to be able to connect all of my servers to the TOR switch via SFP+, i don't have a preference on the media type (DAC/Optics).
I will be getting a /27 CIDR and would like to handle this on the switch but i am unsure of the best approach for a top of rack switch, what i'm looking for would have 24 (or preferably 48 for down the road) SFP+ ports and be able to handle the routing.
Any advice would be helpful and a direction on equipment would be awesome.
I am very comfortable with command line configuration, i have extensive history working with Cisco in the past and have configured many switches and vlans, i'm just at a loss for best practices and equipment choices for TOR switches.
I am planning on doing a half rack for now, i am going to be putting in 6 x Dell R630, some super micro servers and a Mellanox SX6036 40gig switch running IPoIB to handle all storage traffic, each server is equipped with an Intel X540 SFP+ nic's and Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR/QDR QSFP card.
I have gotten most of my setup ready to put in the data center with the exception of the top of rack switch, i would like to be able to connect all of my servers to the TOR switch via SFP+, i don't have a preference on the media type (DAC/Optics).
I will be getting a /27 CIDR and would like to handle this on the switch but i am unsure of the best approach for a top of rack switch, what i'm looking for would have 24 (or preferably 48 for down the road) SFP+ ports and be able to handle the routing.
Any advice would be helpful and a direction on equipment would be awesome.
I am very comfortable with command line configuration, i have extensive history working with Cisco in the past and have configured many switches and vlans, i'm just at a loss for best practices and equipment choices for TOR switches.