With 10 Arrays you shouldnt use entry level switches. The interlink trunk has to be 80% of eql bandwidh. You may consider to buy Dell Force10 switchs with low latency and large buffers. Regards, Joerg
Hi, We have an iSCSI network for our EQL boxes vSphere 5.1 hosts. The network is 192.168.0.0 /24, we are using PC5548 switches and we have three EQL Groups. Everything is setup following best practices from DELL and everything is working kind of ok. Since we are experiencing bad performance from our virtualized SQL servers and troubleshooting has led to the switches as suspicious culprit I want to try using other switches to find out. So I'm planning of adding a pair of cisco switches parallel to the PC5548 and connecting one host and one PS Group to those (where the SQL VM's are residing) and see the difference but my question is can I use the same network 192.168.0.0. /24 even if the cisco and dell switches are not physically connected. Will vMotion work?
Adding switch to iSCSI network