Hello,   Yes you can use a separate VLAN on an existing switch assuming it has sufficient specifications for iSCSI use.  Given how small the environment I suspect you will be OK.   Just make sure the ports are UNTAGGED, jumbo frames, Flowcontrol enabled, and portfast (aka PVST) is enabled on all server and EQL ports.   Regards, Don
I have `Dell EqualLogic PS5000E iSCSI Array`. I have connected this `SAN` to servers directly. I used `Jumbo Frames`. In this case, everything is ok. My storage is `~25TB`. Now, i need to choose, which RAID level i have to use. SAN proposes only 3 levels: `6`, `50`, `10`. I have 16 hdd-s with `~1.8TB` per each disk.Which `RAID` level can you advice for virtualization and for work with databases ?Also, better to configure two raid levels. But `SAN` creates only one default storage pool with all our disks.If you know other way to confgigure two arrays, it will very nice
Which RAID level for virtual machines in EqualLogic 5000e