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Thanks, Andrew,<br />
It has been working for a week without any problem,
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Thanks, Andrew,
It has been working for a week without any problem,

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Hi All,<br />
We have Cisco WS-C3850-24XU switch plenty of free 10GB ports. All the ESXi servers are in on the same rack and connecting virtual network on this switch. We have some spare 10GeE ports left. We are thinking of running the iscsi network on this switch to connect to our SAN. It might save some money buying a switch for iscsi. Are we looking for trouble even though we run in separate VLAN? Is there any KB article/white paper which I can make a case to buy a separate switch?
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Hi All,
We have Cisco WS-C3850-24XU switch plenty of free 10GB ports. All the ESXi servers are in on the same rack and connecting virtual network on this switch. We have some spare 10GeE ports left. We are thinking of running the iscsi network on this switch to connect to our SAN. It might save some money buying a switch for iscsi. Are we looking for trouble even though we run in separate VLAN? Is there any KB article/white paper which I can make a case to buy a separate switch?

Do i need separate switch for iscsi?

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VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.