Guys, Thanks for the responses it is appreciated. On 8/28/12 5:28 PM, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > I'f found pricing for Infiniband switches / cards to be cheaper than > 10G cards/switches with the addition of being 4X fast. I will look into this but putting all of our compute on Infiniband may be cost prohibitive. > > 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 Just a note: the c2100 has been superseded by the Dell r720xd.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. I looked at these but they only hold 8 3.5" drives verses 12 and two on the inside on the 2100. I will ask our rep about this. Do you typically run hot spares or just keep cold spares handy? >> >>> >>> 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. also looking at dell's new force 10 switches. Wonder how they compare price wise. >> >> 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 >>
