You may want to check the vmware forums as I have seen some discussions about this with people doing actual testing. In my experiences the cheaper gig switches are better than the higher end ones because the less the switch does to the packets (inspect, mirror, vlan etc) the faster the throughput is. Since in the environments I set up the san switch to my vmware servers is physically separated Im not too overly concerned with access to it.
There is probably some configs on higher end units you can use I just haven't looked that deep into it. -----Original Message----- From: Mike French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 7:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SAN Gig Switch Recommendation -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 We will be implementing a SAN in 2008; we are mainly a Cisco Shop. We will be deploying to a SAN Network Isolated from our core network switches. I believe a 24 Port Gig switch will fit the bill, but I'm unsure if Cisco is the vendor we should look at? Any advise from you guys that are running SAN's... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Universal 2.6.3 Charset: us-ascii wsBVAwUBR3WPAnsd9fh7bf6mAQgKUQgAnJAqRb6SkY6+dGS4C0DieXnrCk/1k1Ne PmxPHIT3d1qIQksrp77H/uua44TyAqo3bvze/IwlFrpidXrQkB2gv7WBFMN8C+b4 sseWv4S7S9Un/KdX5LnvDF8hUq78ImoKsro883YdvwEkhEkenfOf1e1oYbkD9Q5h JW/qXWWCwTZrmjcBlBZpWwv7JHRxfZInddUhV5luKfYIfHHyStfl7X1vs8NSsqAf 2HUruXkRZXAGNN2FmE7IZgrVCTAw4ksFI34rudUtxBKdczeKBnC69aRcfATSLHnI 5EKKnNBGeiY/oAdJ1Io7wQ7N3nNkZF7ET00I5HBgMP8qS7Ejs1SzFA== =/0k0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
