[clug] Fwd: Re: Storage and networking for Storage as used for supporting [Enterprise] virtualized environments

[Alastair D'Silva]

They typically won't be advertised with 10g in the title, you'll need to look up the specs on the switches as they pop up.

On 19 August 2019 12:41:28 pm AEST, George at Clug via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
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>On Monday, 19-08-2019 at 11:46 Alastair D'Silva wrote:
>> On Mon, 2019-08-19 at 09:19 +1000, George at Clug via linux wrote:
>> > Brett,
>> > 
>> > You said, "The specific line that caught my eye was the one for
>> > iSCSI.   We're only using 100Gb/s
>> > ethernet today and 400Gb/s is still a way off.
>> > iSCSI                1GB/s, 10GB/s, and 40GB/s"
>> > 
>> > Thanks for the info.  I cannot even afford 10GB switches. Would you
>> > know anywhere in Australia that one can buy 10GB ethernet switches
>> > below $200 ?  Most that I see are around $500.
>> > 
>> 
>> One of my switches at home is a 48 port gigabit switch with a 10GB
>XFP
>> uplink on the back. I recently stuck a dual port 10Gb card, plus an
>> optical transciever in my fileserver, and a matching XFP module into
>> the switch, so my server is now connected at 10Gb.
>> 
>> The switch cost me ~$100 from Grays Online.
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>WOW, great price
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>I checked https://www.graysonline.com/search.aspx?q=10Gbps this morning
>and no 10Gbps ethernet cards on sale this morning.
>https://www.graysonline.com/lot/0001-2177274/computers-and-it-equipment/dell-quad-port-10gbase-t-server-module-hot-swap-4x-10gbase-t-ports?spr=true
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>However I had not realised that they can be purchased even from MSY for
>less that $200. I might have to get two.  
>https://www.msy.com.au/asus-xg-c100c
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>Thanks,
>
>George.
>
>
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