Small 1GBS Switch for iSCSI

RobertKaucher

Any suggestions? It's for home use. I'd like a managed system that supports jumbo frames if possible. Cheaper is better...

SteveO86

I've seen people use these as 1 GB SAN switches.

Cisco Small Business Managed Switches Models Comparison - Cisco Systems

Cisco Small business switches. Not as cheap as a home switch but it has some management features.

it_consultant

RobertKaucher wrote: »

Any suggestions? It's for home use. I'd like a managed system that supports jumbo frames if possible. Cheaper is better...

16 GB ports, $200, not a linksys with a Cisco sticker, trusted brand. Probably comes in a less expensive 8 port version.

Amazon.com: HP Procurve 1410-16G Switch: Electronics

Asif Dasl

Netgear GS608 unmanaged switch - $58 NewEgg.

If I hadn't gone with a cheap netgear switch, I would probably go with the 8 port HP suggested above...



EDIT - sorry you were looking for a managed switch, and I think that HP is unmanaged too...

nhan.ng

Linksys SLM2008


- 8 x 1Gb Auto sensing Ports
-Web management interface.
- Port Based VLAN Tagging.
- Can run off of Power Over Ethernet (PoE).
- IEEE 802.1Q VLANs
- EEE 802.1X port authentication.
- Support of IGMP Snooping.

Linksys SLM2008 - A good Gigabit network switch for a VMware ESX test lab. | TechHead.co.uk

QHalo

I have this in the 24port variety and it's a very good switch. No fan and quiet

Amazon.com: New HP ProCurve 1810G-8 Gigabit Ethernet Switch 1 x 10/100/1000Base-T LAN 7 x 10/100/1000Base-T LAN: Electronics

RobertKaucher

it_consultant wrote: »

16 GB ports, $200, not a linksys with a Cisco sticker, trusted brand. Probably comes in a less expensive 8 port version.

Amazon.com: HP Procurve 1410-16G Switch: Electronics

Asif Dasl wrote: »

Netgear GS608 unmanaged switch - $58 NewEgg.

If I hadn't gone with a cheap netgear switch, I would probably go with the 8 port HP suggested above...



EDIT - sorry you were looking for a managed switch, and I think that HP is unmanaged too...

I currently use the HP. I may just endup sticking with that when I see the prices for the managed switches. The reason I'm looking for a managed switch is just the ability to use jumbo frames. At work we saw about 30% increase in storage performance with JF. But for home use that is in no way a requirement I suppose. Thanks for the suggestions!!!

dales

If you are just looking for jumbo frame support, then the netgear gs608 as above provides it, they are unmanaged but we have actually used them as backbone switches in a small 2 node vmware cluster before with great effect.

RobertKaucher

dales wrote: »

If you are just looking for jumbo frame support, then the netgear gs608 as above provides it, they are unmanaged but we have actually used them as backbone switches in a small 2 node vmware cluster before with great effect.

Rep given! Thank you!!

phonetic.man

RobertKaucher wrote: »

Any suggestions? It's for home use. I'd like a managed system that supports jumbo frames if possible. Cheaper is better...

For my production SAN at work I use ProCurve. For classroom and areas with a few network devices I like the Netgear gs108t as I get web management from it and I can use it with my cacti server for colorful graphs. I have about 15 total Netgear switches from both v1 and v2 (v2 is much smaller). The Netgear runs about $100 Newegg.com - NETGEAR GS108Tv2