Jim,
We were considering going from 1G to 10G, but, like you said you have to spend some real money to get there.
Switches, firewalls, etc all now need to have 10G ports instead of 1G ports, and that expense becomes large, almost more than the I itself.
Paul
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2018 2:05 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: P9 config question - Ethernet adapter - 5899 PCIe2 4-port 1Gb or other?
I'd say 80% of my customers use that card. The other 20% will move to a
10GB copper (EC2U) card if the normal backbone in the data center is set up
for it. Most of those customers also have network setups to eliminate
nearly every single point of failure, so they spend some real money to get
there.
I've never seen the 5899 pushed hard enough to get it even close to
capacity. Most of the performance graphs flat line at about 1%-2%.
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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2018 12:59 PM
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Subject: P9 config question - Ethernet adapter - 5899 PCIe2 4-port 1Gb or
other?
Are most using a 5899 PCIe2 4-port 1Gb Ethernet adapter?
If not, what other feature and why?
Thank You
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Paul Steinmetz
IBM i Systems Administrator
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