I'f found pricing for Infiniband switches / cards to be cheaper than 10G cards/switches with the addition of being 4X fast. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Joe Topjian <joe at topjian.net> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Matt Weil <mweil at genome.wustl.edu> wrote: >> >> Since we are on the subject of hardware what would be the perfect fit for >> a gluster brick. We where looking at a PowerEdge C2100 Rack Server. > > > Just a note: the c2100 has been superseded by the Dell r720xd. Although the > r720 is not part of the c-series, it's their official replacement. > >> >> During testing I found it pretty easy to saturate 1 Gig network links. >> This was also the case when multiple links where bonded together. Are there >> any cheap 10 gig switch alternatives that anyone would suggest? > > > While not necessarily cheap, I've had great luck with Arista 7050 switches. > > We implement them in sets of two, linked together. We then use dual-port > 10gb NICs and connect each NIC to each switch. It gives multiple layers of > redundancy + a theoretical 20gb throughput per server. > > Thanks, > Joe > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
