Originally Posted by
SeanLeyne
We have 2 Intel SSR212MC2 storage chassis (2U w/12 hot-swap HDDs) for the SANs and 2 Intel SR1500 1U servers (2 x Quad CPU) for VMWare ESX.
In the SANs, we have 1 x Intel Quad Gbe Server adapter, the ports are bonded into a single connection which redundancy between the SAN and iSCSI/FTP services to our internal network (via our HP ProCurve switch) and 1 x Intel Dual 10Gbe CX-4 adapter which are direct connected to each of the VMWare servers (which also have Intel Dual 10Gbe CX-4 adapters).
So, in a 6U of rack space, we have a fully redundant VM and SAN configuration with the fastest possible VM-to-SAN connectivity.