iSCSI switch?

For those of you with home or office labs, what kind of switch are you using for iSCSI traffic? Now that I have time to redo the lab I'm debating if I want a cheap switch or something along the lines of a Procurve 1810 that offers VLAN tagging and some other nice management features.

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RobertKaucher

What sort of granularity of testing will you be doing? Are you actually going to be running performance tests against SQL Server or VMware? I would say that would be the clencher. If you actually want to run serious perf test, spend the money. If you are just usingit to "play" setting up some VMs and making things work the way they should, then just get the minimum required. Someone on here suggested one of the Netgear Gb switches as it supports jumboframes... But I have actually just ended up using a crossover.

Everyone

Shouldn't need anything special for a lab.

ptilsen

We've typically used Procurve 2810-24Gs at a minimum in production environments, but there is no reason a pair Procurve v1810-24Gs wouldn't work just as well for a small iSCSI environment. That is what I am planning on using myself, in fact.

jibbajabba

Anything which supports jumbo frames really ....