Quote Originally Posted by rogerk
sorry,
yes it is the x5500 ...

more ram means more WB Cache
iscsi with 10gbe needs fast cpu to satisfy 10gbe, especially smal blocks 4kb need fast cpu.

roger
Did you monitor the CPU usage? Even my 8x Intel X25-M 160GB SSD setup on Adaptec 5805Z only require 2x E5520 which is super idle most of the time. I was using 4x 1GBe link as teaming via twin Dell 5424 switches as redundancy and load balance.

How much did you pay for the 10GBe HP switch?

I am new job which require me to setup SAN for virtualization again, just wondering if there is a need to go for 10GBe instead of teaming of 1GBe on SSD as the storage array.

The bottleneck should be at Disk I/O instead of CPU nor SAN Switches. Do correct me if I am wrong.

Looking at Mushkin SandForce based 250GB SSD now...