DCB - Force10 MXL and Equallogic PS6210 - worth it or not?

Hello all

I have a new 3-blade M620 virtualization environment, 2 x MXL Force10 switches and 2 x Equallogic PS6210 - there is the possibility of using DCB - is it useful to configure DCB, will I get the gains and better stability, or for a small environment should I just use the configuration standard iscsi?

Ideas or alternative options gratefully received.

Thank you

Hello

If the switches are dedicated for iSCSI use, then there is no advantage to the use of DCB.  DCB in itself does not have iSCSI faster.  I just made sure non-iSCSI traffic doesn't interfere by providing iSCSI with a higher priority.  All other traffic is going in a "lossy" class of service.

Also, you will need DCB converged network adapters to use BCD on the hosts.  Most of the iSCSI software adapters do not support DCB.

Kind regards

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