NVIDIA Spectrum Switches

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

NVIDIA Mellanox Spectrum switches acting as Top of Rack (TOR) switches in the data center.

Likelihood to Recommend

Works well if you use core networking functionality

Does not work well in a multi-vendor setup.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mellanox Switches are used in our company as network backbone switches in combination with Cumulus OS across the complete organization. Also as a high-performance Networking platform for our Hyperconverged Infrastructure based on Windows Server 2016. In Addition, we deployed Mellanox Switches at our customers especially as high-performance infrastructure for HCI

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited:

HCI Infrastructure as a high-performance platform for storage traffic

TOR or Network Backbone

Less appropriate:

Client Access switches