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We have the following devices:
9 Host Servers (Dell R620)
Host 1-5 Connected to the Dell S5148F-ON
Host 6-9 Connected to the Cisco 4500
2 SAN (Unity 400) (MD3600i)
2 Dell S5148F-ON Switches
1 Cisco 4500
1 Cisco 4900
We connected the 2 Dell Switches together using 2 100G link and there both connected to the Hosts 1-5 and to the SAN Unity 400. Also we have a 10G connection from one the Dell S5148F-ON to the Cisco 4500. The Cisco 4500 connects to the Cisco 4900 downstream which gets out to the internet.
Can someone please recommend if this is good practice? If not what your recommendations are :)
9 Host Servers (Dell R620)
Host 1-5 Connected to the Dell S5148F-ON
Host 6-9 Connected to the Cisco 4500
2 SAN (Unity 400) (MD3600i)
2 Dell S5148F-ON Switches
1 Cisco 4500
1 Cisco 4900
We connected the 2 Dell Switches together using 2 100G link and there both connected to the Hosts 1-5 and to the SAN Unity 400. Also we have a 10G connection from one the Dell S5148F-ON to the Cisco 4500. The Cisco 4500 connects to the Cisco 4900 downstream which gets out to the internet.
Can someone please recommend if this is good practice? If not what your recommendations are :)
Aaron Tomosky
The hosts on the two dell switches will have the best performance to the SAN. The hosts on the 4500 will be going through the 10g link to the SAN. This is the same link that hosts 1-5 will use to get out to the internet and hosts 6-9. So be careful of that 10g link becoming saturated. If possible I would consider moving the 4500 to the dell stack instead of chained through the 4900 to separate the internet traffic and also remove the 4900 from being a single point of failure to the internet. Use MLAG if possible. In general it seems alright but we would need to know more about what talks to what the most to really offer any additional suggestions.
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