[Gluster-users] Typical setup questions

[Bryan Whitehead]

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 Just a note: the c2100 has been superseded by the Dell r720xd.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
>
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