Hello,
running vSphere (simple setup 3 hosts) with AFF150 for NFS VM serving to hosts and iscsi for SnapManager and few other things.
Got to upgrade to something else on switching side and on table are two setups:
- aruba 8360v2
- extreme 7520
The only difference visible I was able to find is:
"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)"
https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50002121enw
https://extr-p-001.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/api/public/content/b5da59835f5d4d10b740208284c8bc09?v=1a1ceae6
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).
What is your take on this? Is is worth of spending 35% more?
