Monday, June 1, 2020

10 gig Switch Recommendations

Got 2 HPE servers that I plan to put in a Hyper-V cluster. All have 10 GB SFP+ NICs.

From each server I want to have a 10 gig connection to Switch A and another 10 gig connection to switch B and have them work in such a way that if one switch goes down, the host stays online.

I am currently testing 2 Ubiquiti XG16 switches and using SET in Windows to team the two NICs. But as a test if I remove one of the connections, the server falls off the network. So much for redundancy. It's my understanding that to get that redundancy at the switch level I need switches that support stacking. (???)

So, those of you who have set up Hyper-V clusters - what switches are you using, that give you redundancy so that if one switch fails, the host stays online?

I'm gonna start with a budget of around $3-5k per switch



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