Hi All,
I have the following infrastructure
-Palo Alto FW
-CRS328-24P-4S-RM (another one available, if best design)
-2 x CRS317-1G-16S+RM
-3 x ESXi hosts
-Storage with dual controllers
My VLANs are: Management, LAN, Storage, vMotion
I was planning to run all switches in SwitchOS for maximum CPU. I read this was preferred for performance if I didn't need any router protocols. My goal is to have maximum throughput with HA. I would like the full 20GB between the ESXi hosts for vMotion and the full 20GB between hosts and storage. I separate the LAN traffic out to another NIC because I figure that is all that needed to traverse all the way up to the Palo and would ultimately be throttled down to the 1GB throughput on the FW uplink.
Questions:
1. Is this the best design?
2. Can I get the full 20GB throughput if the NICs go to 2 different CRS317 switches, or should I use just one CRS317?