Dear all,
I am trying to build a small (home) NAS in a HP ProLiant Microserver N40L as an iSCSI server. This iSCSI server will be used as a shared datastore of at least 2 ESXi separate servers. The total of VMs which will be hosted is around 10 VMs.
I want to buy a "low-cost" switch for the above topology which support (at the same time) both Link Aggregation, Flow Control and Jumbo Frames (9K) Features. The switch will be used dedicated for the communication between NAS and ESXi servers. In my research I found two candidates: HP 1810-8g (which does not support at the same time Link Aggregation and Flow Control) and Cisco SG200-08 (which I cannot find some information if support these features simultaneously). I also found that the buffer is very important. The HP have 512KB and Cisco 4 MB.
Have any of you use the above switches for iSCSI communication ? Could you compare their performace ? I am open in any recommendations.
Thank you,
John
I am trying to build a small (home) NAS in a HP ProLiant Microserver N40L as an iSCSI server. This iSCSI server will be used as a shared datastore of at least 2 ESXi separate servers. The total of VMs which will be hosted is around 10 VMs.
I want to buy a "low-cost" switch for the above topology which support (at the same time) both Link Aggregation, Flow Control and Jumbo Frames (9K) Features. The switch will be used dedicated for the communication between NAS and ESXi servers. In my research I found two candidates: HP 1810-8g (which does not support at the same time Link Aggregation and Flow Control) and Cisco SG200-08 (which I cannot find some information if support these features simultaneously). I also found that the buffer is very important. The HP have 512KB and Cisco 4 MB.
Have any of you use the above switches for iSCSI communication ? Could you compare their performace ? I am open in any recommendations.
Thank you,
John