Tuesday, April 24, 2018

New router or Switch for my Lab

Hi all,

I am look for some opinions and suggestions for a situation I am in. Currently my home lab is 3x Dell r710 servers with 6 TB of storage combined.My plan is to create a VMWare cluster and utilize vSAN as i have SSD’s for cache and 10k spindles for capacity tier. I also have a plex server. My issue is my current network is all gigabit which is fine except for vMotion and vSAN traffic which only use the fastest single interface. So my question is whats the best way to do 10gig? I looked at switches but they are expensive as you can guess. So I thought maybe A router with some 10gig interfaces since vSAN likes L3 connectivity between hosts. I thought maybe pfSense? But i thought i would post and see whats ideas are out there. Thanks for any thoughts and suggestions in advance.



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