Oh yeah, I always forget about the QFX series. Seems like that would do the job. List prices are utter nonsense for switches, but the QFX does come in above th

Oh yeah, I always forget about the QFX series. Seems like that would do the job. List prices are utter nonsense for switches, but the QFX does come in above the other two I mentioned. Perhaps because of its fibre-channely nature that no one (I hope) cares about. QFX5100-48T: $24,000 Nexus 3064-T: $13,000 7050T-52: $20,000 Still, any of these would work if you get the right deal. I could see an advantage for 10g copper if I had mixed racks where not all of my hosts needed 10g on the server side, but that's a big premium to pay over 1g TOR if you aren't using lots of 10 gig ports. For me, I just use copper on 1 gig racks and DAC on 10 gig racks. So far, so good.