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Thanks for the recommendations and discussion on the matter
everyone!<br>
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In the short term, we will likely look at the Cisco 3560 for price
and vendor preference, as the performance limitations described will
exceed our use at the moment. I realise this limits our growth on
this equipment, but at the moment we are making do with 2960G's as
top-of-rack switches comfortably, and are only making a move for the
benefit of dual redundant power supplies.<br>
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However if budget allows it after grabbing some official pricing, I
will likely look at the Juniper options. Dual-PSU is our only main
requirement, other than that basic VLAN's is as much as we do on the
switch directly, so stacking and L3 capabilities are definitely not
important to us.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Joe<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/07/13 08:53, Lincoln Dale wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAAhBB_B0x3mZZ-RCidzUiXn=QS2VUGZt18PXq_Ce8nK8DcVguQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Greg M <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:gregm@servu.net.au" target="_blank">gregm@servu.net.au</a>></span>
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Just be aware that if you are pushing the 3560X hard in a
server environment<br>
you will experience packet drops due to shitty buffers on the
2960S/3560X<br>
and 3750X series. We ended up choosing the 4948E because of
this...<br>
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Most 1GE switches have anemic buffers which results in
less-than-stellar performance if you drive them hard, have
bursts or incast traffic.<br>
Alas, this doesn't even figure in most people's
knowledge/requests when it comes it networking.<br>
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A good example of the issue you've described is at <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dev.datasift.com/blog/big-data-bigger-networking">http://dev.datasift.com/blog/big-data-bigger-networking</a>>
and <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dev.datasift.com/blog">http://dev.datasift.com/blog</a>><br>
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cheers,<br>
<br>
lincoln.<br>
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