Affordable 10G SFP+ Switches for SMB Hyper-Converged Appliance Expansion
Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) has been earning a good reputation in data centers, whether it is of the entire branch offices, the IT duties of small and medium businesses (SMBs) or the virtual desktop infrastructure deployments. HCI offers numerous integrated services such as backup, data protection and solid-state drive storage, and allows seamless management and expansion of various compute, storage and network devices, i.e., users can scale the network flexibly by adding a new appliance to the hyper-converged cluster. For SMBs, the requirements for network switches is not the same as large enterprises when adding a 10G appliance. This post is to suggest some affordable 10G SFP+ switches for SMBs during hyper-converged appliance (HCA) expansion. 10G SFP+ Switches Requirements for SMB HCA Expansion In today’s SMBs, applications are requiring higher data rate and some management features. For a SMB with a considerable size, the core switches might be requir