[BBLISA] Faster than 1G Ether ... ESX to ZFS

[Joe McDonagh]

You can either do bonding or order some older fc equipment at 2 or 4g.

On 11/12/2010 09:21 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>
> Since combining ZFS storage backend, via nfs or iscsi, with ESXi 
> heads, I'm in love.  But for one thing.  The interconnect between the 
> head & storage.
>
> 1G Ether is so cheap, but not as fast as desired.  10G ether is fast 
> enough, but it's overkill and why is it so bloody expensive?  Why is 
> there nothing in between?  Is there something in between?  Is there a 
> better option?  I mean ... sata is cheap, and it's 3g or 6g, but it's 
> not suitable for this purpose.  But the point remains, there isn't a 
> fundamental limitation that **requires** 10G to be expensive, or 
> **requires** a leap directly from 1G to 10G.  I would very much like 
> to find a solution which is a good fit... to attach ZFS storage to vmware.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
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