https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/8360v2-vs-7520-for-NFS-iSCSI/m-p/456684#M1339 <P>Hello,</P><P>running vSphere (simple setup 3 hosts) with AFF150 for NFS VM serving to hosts and iscsi for SnapManager and few other things.</P><P>Got to upgrade to something else on switching side and on table are two setups:<BR />- aruba 8360v2<BR />- extreme 7520</P><P>The only difference visible I was able to find is:<BR />"Advanced lossless pool configuration Global buffering statistics Storage Solution Support iSCSI, Lossless iSCSI, RDMA over Converged Ethernet version 2 (RoCE v1 and v2) and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe over Fabrics)"</P><P><A class="" href="https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50002121enw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50002121enw</A><BR /><A class="" href="https://extr-p-001.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/api/public/content/b5da59835f5d4d10b740208284c8bc09?v=1a1ceae6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://extr-p-001.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/api/public/content/b5da59835f5d4d10b740208284c8bc09?v=1a1ceae6</A></P><P>Cost difference is cca 35% (Extreme is cheaper) so questions is whether these protocols are important on long run (I see A20 is out and this is probably be replacement for existing A150).</P><P>What is your take on this? Is is worth of spending 35% more?</P> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:12:58 GMT imadam 2024-11-15T21:12:58Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/8360v2-vs-7520-for-NFS-iSCSI/m-p/456684#M1339 <P>Hello,</P><P>running vSphere (simple setup 3 hosts) with AFF150 for NFS VM serving to hosts and iscsi for SnapManager and few other things.</P><P>Got to upgrade to something else on switching side and on table are two setups:<BR />- aruba 8360v2<BR />- extreme 7520</P><P>The only difference visible I was able to find is:<BR />"Advanced lossless pool configuration Global buffering statistics Storage Solution Support iSCSI, Lossless iSCSI, RDMA over Converged Ethernet version 2 (RoCE v1 and v2) and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe over Fabrics)"</P><P><A class="" href="https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50002121enw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50002121enw</A><BR /><A class="" href="https://extr-p-001.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/api/public/content/b5da59835f5d4d10b740208284c8bc09?v=1a1ceae6" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">https://extr-p-001.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/api/public/content/b5da59835f5d4d10b740208284c8bc09?v=1a1ceae6</A></P><P>Cost difference is cca 35% (Extreme is cheaper) so questions is whether these protocols are important on long run (I see A20 is out and this is probably be replacement for existing A150).</P><P>What is your take on this? Is is worth of spending 35% more?</P> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:12:58 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/AFF/8360v2-vs-7520-for-NFS-iSCSI/m-p/456684#M1339 imadam 2024-11-15T21:12:58Z