Gigabit upgrade Procurve Advice

[chris sheldon]

I currently have 6 dell and hp netservers and 4 procurve 2524 switches. i want to upgrade the links to the servers to gigabit, and was thinking of installing intel Pro 1000MT cards in the servers, buying a Procurve 2824 switch and 4 ProCurve 100/1000-T Transceiver (J4834A) for the Procurve 2524's. I was then going to connect the 2524 via the 4 dual-personality ports of the 2824. Any comments....i have also been looking at the more expensive Procurve 4140gl

[OLARU Dan]

Read all posts from the URL below to get an image of what's happening to DELL computers (not only PowerEdge servers, but also Optiplex PCs).

http://forum.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pes_network&message.id=1556&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

[The Real MD]

it sounds like you have the situation in hand. The only thing I would do is manually fix the speeds of the network cards and the ports on your switches. The only reason why I say this is that I have experienced problems with auto negotiation with different manufacturers.

Regards

Martin.