Re: OT - DRAC Network Doubt

If you are talking about DRAC ports on Dell servers or ILO on an HP, these
are typically really low bandwidth and infrequently used.
There purpose is for tasks like powering on/off server remotely via Telnet.

I would buy the cheapest switches I could get with a single trunk uplink to
a distribution switch.

For our datacenter we use these for DRAC at the top of rack and they do
fine:
http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-SRW248G4-48-port-4-port-Gigabit/dp/B000BWYU3A

Here is the Cisco specs link:
https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9992/index.html

   - Non-blocking switching capacity of up to 17.6 Gbps
   - Up to 256 active 802.1q-based VLANs and a private VLAN edge for simple
   network isolation
   - Secure access limitations using 802.1x port authentication and MAC
   filtering
   - IGMP snooping, L2/L3 COS, queuing & scheduling makes solution ideal for
   voice/video
   - Intelligent traffic management with rate limiting, policing, shaping,
   and storm control

Chris

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Alessandro Braga <sandro.unix_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> I am responsible to implement a DRAC Network. But I am in doubt of
> what would be the best way to implement this network, I dont have any
> experience at all with this type of implementation.
>
> I have considered Cisco with Private-VLAN, but my manager doesnt have
> budget for a network full of Cisco devices, so I asked myself if is
> feasible one vlan for each customer, once there might be a need of
> having different equipments of different physical segments having to
> communicate with each other?
>
> Looking forward for comments and opinions,
>
> Best Regards,
>
> AB
>
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Received on Thu Sep 02 2010 - 14:44:42 ART