Anton, I did not receive any mail. We have 2 switches and 2 SANs with 2x 10Gbit available. We were planning to connect every SAN to both switches, creating 4 paths. This way a switch can go down, but both SANs will still be reachable. If we create a sync channel on 10Gbit, we will only have 1 10Gbit...

Also, what kind of cable do you use to get a 10gbit crossover channel? I can't find any cat7 crossover cables, nor cat6a.

edit: it seems you don't need crossover cables with 10Gbit, but can simply use a straight cable. Could you confirm this?

Anton, Could you send me an email (see profile)? We have 2x 10gbit switches and 2 10gbit ports per SAN available. Our idea was to connect both SANs to both switches. This results in 0 free 10gbit ports on the SANs. Could we sync over the iscsi network? Of course we could connect 1 SAN to 1 switch, b...

Thanks for the reply. 1Gbit sync channel will be good enough (crosscable best option?)? Both 10gbit ports will be in use to connect to two switches for redundancy and some extra speed.

Hello, We are currently in the process of buying hardware on which we will probably use Starwind. We have the following on our list at this moment (2x for HA): CSE-847E16-R1400LPB X8DTi-LN4F 1x Xeon E5645 Six-Core 48GB ECC REG RAM ADAPTEC MaxIQ 5805ZQ 17x SEAGATE Hard Drive 1TB SAS-600 7200RPM (1 ho...