Our network vendor is telling us to upgrade our iSCSI SAN to 10Gb.
But the network switches alone are $4500 each (or more), and we need 2! (He sells Dell gear.)
Are there reliable options for cheaper?
asked Oct 25, 2015 at 6:33
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Wellll, this site is kinda quiet. Found a thread on spiceworks which is much more active. Found a couple of useful paths:
- Dell X4012 is a 12port, 10Gb managed, for $1239.
- Netgear 12-Port ProSafe 10Gb Smart Switch XS712T // Netgear has unmanaged option for sub $900, and managed options for ~$1400
answered Oct 26, 2015 at 18:54
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Time's moved on, but I bought a cheap Hasivo 8 port 10G chinese switch from aliexpress and it works fine with iscsi. Great for the home-lab because its very quiet and has standard fans.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005584354045.html
All metal rackmount case, VLANs, LAGGs, COS, and it has a SSH interface too.
Downsides, cannot be managed by ipv6. Web UI is a bit messy, and saving changes is a two step cisco-like process - you have to do a "copy running-config startup-config" after saving changes.
