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10GbE iSCSI at SAN, 1GbE at Hosts?

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cajuntank

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Looking to possibly get my feet wet with 10GbE at the SAN level. I cannot swap everything out for 10GbE as I don't have enough switch ports yet, but I can connect my SAN up 10GbE and leave my servers at 1GbE. My first guess is this would work, but I do not want to assume anything. Has anyone tried this or is this not normally supported?
 
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Got my question answered from a HP storage engineer. This is common practice as not everyone as an abundance of 10GbE ports. So it's ok to have both.
 
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Just make sure your network backbone is either fast enough (10GbE) or wide enough (Etherchannel) or you won't have a lot of benefit from your 10GbE uplink(s) to the SAN box.

HTH,

p5wizard
 
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