Buy new hardware

[SeanLeyne]

- one port connect to switch 1 (use MS Windows 2008 with MPIO)
- one port connect to switch 2 (use MS Windows 2008 with MPIO)

Almost forgot...
Rather than have 1 port for each of the Win2008 servers, I would take the 2 ports from a single card and bond them together and use the same bond for both Win2008 servers.

[symm]

I would go with two Intel Xeon E5420 2,5GHz (more cores)
start with more memory (as much as you can afford)
in file mode teh memory will be used as cache.

[jens]

I would go with two Intel Xeon E5420 2,5GHz (more cores)
start with more memory (as much as you can )
in file mode teh memory will be used as cache.

file mode = NAS? I only wan't to use ISCSI.
Use ISCSI memory to cache data?

[budy]

If iSCSI is used in file i/o mode (mostly for VMWare), then the system memory will be used as a cache. If iSCSI is used in block i/o mode, then the reads/writes go directly to the storage.

Cheers,
budy

[jens]

to budy,symm and SeanLeyne:

Thank you for helping me out!