I am looking at upgrading our environment, but budget is very limited. I was wondering if I should even bother with this route or just stick with 1GB iSCSI and purchase better components. I can purchase the San in either 1GB or 10GB versions and am confident the SAN will work well. My biggest concerns (or at least my vendors) is the switches I have found to support 10GbE. He is suggesting that if there were problems Dell would not offer support because the switches are small business switches and not enterprise switches. Has anyone tried these netgear switches on SANs?
San: Equallogic 6110XVS - 24 300GB 15K SAS drives
Switches: Netgear XS708E