- Nov 18, 2005
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Quite a few switches have two or four SFP+ ports for 10GbE connectivity. Usually these are utilized for stacking switches, but my question is simple:
can you utilize those same ports as if they are just another switched port?
I'm looking at building an ESXi host with the Xeon D-1500 platform at the heart of it, and most packages typically include two GbE RJ45 connections, and two 10GbE connections. Some motherboards have 10Gbase-T, but a majority seem to have SFP+ modules.
Ideally, I'd use the two 1000base-T connections for WAN/LAN connections within pfSense, and the 10GbE connections for FreeNAS and/or other VMs so that the internal network could potentially have multiple clients with a saturated connection.
That comes down to needing the switch to be capable of treating the 10GbE connections as simply additional switched ports.
Forgive me, as it's been a long time since I was neck-deep in my networking studies, and I never had a chance to work with stacked switches and, at the time, GBIC connections, so I never saw how they were treated in the switch's OS.
can you utilize those same ports as if they are just another switched port?
I'm looking at building an ESXi host with the Xeon D-1500 platform at the heart of it, and most packages typically include two GbE RJ45 connections, and two 10GbE connections. Some motherboards have 10Gbase-T, but a majority seem to have SFP+ modules.
Ideally, I'd use the two 1000base-T connections for WAN/LAN connections within pfSense, and the 10GbE connections for FreeNAS and/or other VMs so that the internal network could potentially have multiple clients with a saturated connection.
That comes down to needing the switch to be capable of treating the 10GbE connections as simply additional switched ports.
Forgive me, as it's been a long time since I was neck-deep in my networking studies, and I never had a chance to work with stacked switches and, at the time, GBIC connections, so I never saw how they were treated in the switch's OS.