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Hi,<br />
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We are in the process of setting up a virtual environment with iSCSI connectivity to local storage on the network.<br />
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My question is regarding best practice of the switch setup. &nbsp;We have a HP ProCurve E2510-24G switch. &nbsp;This will be used only for the NAS and servers to connect to for iSCSI. &nbsp;Other than jumbo frames setting up on the switch and the VLAN settings, are there any other best pracitices to be used?<br />
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Many thanks
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Hi,

We are in the process of setting up a virtual environment with iSCSI connectivity to local storage on the network.

My question is regarding best practice of the switch setup.  We have a HP ProCurve E2510-24G switch.  This will be used only for the NAS and servers to connect to for iSCSI.  Other than jumbo frames setting up on the switch and the VLAN settings, are there any other best pracitices to be used?

Many thanks

Switches with iSCSI

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Networking Hardware-Other

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