I Just ordered an EX-4300-48P switch with 40gbE uplinks, but i'm a little confused as I've never worked with 40gbE before.
The mellanox cards I can find are only qsfp not qsfp+ which the switch I just ordered is... is that an issue?
Since I will not be using infiniband, do I care about the extra offloading the mellanox CX3 Pro offers? Or is the non pro fine? These will be running on 2 ESXI boxes and a Solaris 11.4 box.
As far as DAC cables go, what's the best bet? As far as the connectors on the DAC cable, does the mellanox NIC care if i get a card that's Juniper encoded on both ends? or Do i need a custom cable that one endpoint is Juniper and the other is Mellanox?
Since i don't know anything about good deals here, what do you recommend for cables and cards?
The mellanox cards I can find are only qsfp not qsfp+ which the switch I just ordered is... is that an issue?
Since I will not be using infiniband, do I care about the extra offloading the mellanox CX3 Pro offers? Or is the non pro fine? These will be running on 2 ESXI boxes and a Solaris 11.4 box.
As far as DAC cables go, what's the best bet? As far as the connectors on the DAC cable, does the mellanox NIC care if i get a card that's Juniper encoded on both ends? or Do i need a custom cable that one endpoint is Juniper and the other is Mellanox?
Since i don't know anything about good deals here, what do you recommend for cables and cards?