SAN Switch

The Storage Area Network switch, in this case, is a TL-SG105E it currently sells on Amazon for $25.00.  Since, for the current architecture,  there will only be four devices on the SAN,  a five-port switch will work.   With the class of hardware we are using, there is no reason to look at the expense of 10G gear.  The TL-SG105E has two things useful as a SAN switch.  The first one, which is the more important of the two, is the fact that it supports jumbo frames (up to 15K).  The second one is that it supports VLANs, so I can keep the management on a separate network than the san traffic.

My VLAN config for the switch is as follow:

Port 5 the default VLAN and where the management IP address is attached. VLAN 199 is not routed off this switch.