As far as 10GigE, there are very few ways to deploy this today. Most storage vendors don’t support it, and when they do, they don’t have enough performance to even justify 10G connections. 10G-baseT is still in the process of being deployed, XFP+ and 10G-Base-CX4 standards are there, but the connectivity expected for storage will most likely be based on 10G-baseT and SFP+.

Also, TOE enabled NICs have been available on 1GigE for awhile, and are standard now on most platforms. The reality, for iSCSI, and most workloads and most applications, 1GigE is still the right connectivity. Only is large block( 1MB+), streaming HD video types of application is anything other then iSCSI over 1GigE recommended.

10G I see as a convergence from an edge core perspective, as well as for limiting the number of cables for larger virtualization platforms.

Thanks for the comment. I wonder what your experience (if any) has been running iSCSI on LANs with a healthy number of initiators? Do you have any experience with iSCSI at 10G with new TOE enabled NIC adapters?

I would be very interested to hear your experiences…

Regards, Sadry

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