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If you are a \u201cbig IT shop\u201d kind of person then you already know what I\u2019m talking about so you can ignore the rest of this post.  If you are a \u201csmall shop\u201d IT person or an SMB owner, this one is for you!<\/p>\n

We recently upgraded a customer by swapping out their ageing EqualLogic 1 gigabit SAN with a new Dell MD3600i 10 gigabit SAN and the performance jump has been nothing short of amazing.  We used small Netgear 10 GbE switches and Intel 10 GbE dual-port NIC\u2019s to create the iSCSI network between the Dell ESXi 5.1 hosts and the SAN and I used Veeam\u2019s \u201cQuick Migration\u201d tool (best \u201cunheard\u201d of tool you will ever use!) to copy the VM\u2019s from the old SAN to the new one.<\/p>\n

The performance boost is more than just \u201cnoticeable\u201d, it is transformative.  Having cut my \u201cSAN teeth\u201d on fibre connected SAN\u2019s I have to say that I always found the performance of gigabit iSCSI to be \u201cOK\u201d but a bit underwhelming.  This is most definitely NOT the case with 10 GbE iSCSI!  With the price of 10 GbE network gear plummeting and the availability of \u201centry level\u201d iSCSI NAS and iSCSI devices increasing all the time (a la QNAP, Synology, et al), I think 10 GbE iSCSI is something worth considering for your storage needs.  It is <\/em>fast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are a \u201cbig IT shop\u201d kind of person then you already know what I\u2019m talking about so you can ignore the rest of this post.  If you are a \u201csmall shop\u201d IT person or an SMB owner, this one is for you! 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