Hello,

We have a PS 6610e and 5 HP DL 380 servers running VMware 6. I've been tasked with setting up the storage to the hosts and found that we do not have any dedicated switches to use for a SAN and that we'll need to use the existing switch (Cisco Nexus 2232). I'm trying to wrap my head around how to accomplish this. I know that as a "best practice" it is better to have dedicated switches but having limited experience with this setup I'm having trouble convincing those with the $$.

From what I understand, in order to use the same network as our LAN we would need to use:

Data Center Bridging (which requires converged network adapters)?

Enable network I/O control?

I have found some information on setting this up but it is scattered - is there documentation somewhere for setting up iSCSI on a shared network? Or is this a really bad idea??

Thanks for any input/advice.