SAN Switch

The Storage Area Network switch, in this case, is a Zyxel GS1200-8 it currently sells on Amazon for $35.00.   With the class of hardware we are using, there is no reason to look at the expense of 10G gear.  The GS1200-8 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 9K).  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 6 the default VLAN and where the management IP address is attached. VLAN 199 is the VLAN for the storage area network and is not routed off this switch.