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Originally Posted by uxbod  I'm interested in that aswell. I would imagine that if you are using a dedicated giga-switch for the filer and have a separate NIC in the ZCS for the storage all should be okay. Just remember to keep the length of CAT6e cables as short as possible. |
Depending on how critical your operations are and how much money you have to spend on it you can do even better. if you get stackable switches such as the cisco 3750 and 2 nics on your san storage and server, you plug each nic into a separate switch, create an port channel on the 2 ports you're using (only supported in stacking mode) and use 802.3ad link aggregation. This not only gives you a 2Gbps connection but provides you with fault tolerance as you can lose a nic or even an entire switch and still be running.