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RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing


From: David Hubbard <dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:56:24 -0500

From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon.kim () brandontek com] 



One question I do have for any that actually read through 
this entire email (haha) is about the physical network 
switch. Is there a case for the switch, especially
in today's high density environment to go with 1GIG switches 
as the minimum? It seems pretty obvious but I'm wondering if 
it's really a necessity?
Can anyone on this list argue that 10/100 will be suffice?


If you're going to do iscsi, 10/100 will be pitiful
for performance.  If it's just carrying the guest (VM)
traffic, 100 mbit is fine.


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