Mon Apr 11, 2016 5:01 am
SAN are one of the most demanding scenarios for networking, for SAN deployments you have to follow your vendor suggestions to get the proper support in case of problems
most SAN deployment guides talk about switches not routers
some vendor have a 16 port 10gigabit ethernet (8 x 10GBase-T + 8 x 10 Gigabit SFP+) hardware switch for 3000US with some layer 3 functions
off course for 3000US you cannot have FCoE or another advanced specific storage options
keep in mind here we are talking about ethernet (NAS, NFS, pNFS, CIFS, iSCSI), fiber channel is another world