From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon....@brandontek.com] >
> > One question I do have for any that actually read through > this entire email (haha) is about the physical network > switch. Is there a case for the switch, especially > in today's high density environment to go with 1GIG switches > as the minimum? It seems pretty obvious but I'm wondering if > it's really a necessity? > Can anyone on this list argue that 10/100 will be suffice? > If you're going to do iscsi, 10/100 will be pitiful for performance. If it's just carrying the guest (VM) traffic, 100 mbit is fine.