iSCSI to FC

My office is planning to migrate our current storage and VMWare infrastructure for iSCSI to FC.  I'm not well versed in the side storage of things, and I wonder what kind of material we need to achieve.  We are not a major operation and would require only something pretty entry level.  Currently, we have 3 San, so 6 ports with some room to grow enough probably.

I know that replace us NIC with HBA - but otherwise it would be as simple as making an FC switch to connect the storage to the host servers?

I have looked at the MDS 9124 and 9222i - are these stand-alone units that would work or is there other necessary elements?

If we always connect servers to our production LAN gigabit NIC, this type of upgrade even there a sense to do?

Thank you

Rob

Hi, I know that you gave some reasons for wanting to migrate to CF, but I think you go back in the evolution of the data center storage technology. iSCSI is cheaper, easier to set up and manage (no special skills required - it works on Ethernet), and with the advent of 10G, should really no problem with performance. There are also switches that provide optimization iSCSI - a sort of QoS for iSCSI. Switch Dell 8024 10 is one of them.

If you have a configuration problem, you should really addreess that and not throw a storage solution perfectly fine to go with a technology that will cost you more money.

HTH

Victor

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