Storage Networking (iSCSi)

[macrules34]

I have a cisco UCS chassis that is connected to an fabric extender that is connected to a pair of Cisco Nexus 5020s. I know that the UCS chassis uses 10GB, what I wanted to know is can I connect a 1GB iscsi storage unit to the Cisco UCS even tho it runs at 10GB? I have three VNXe3150s that I would like to use as data stores for the ESX blades.

 

[azev]

Of course you can however your throughput will be limited to the speed of the interface you connect your storage too.
One way to mitigate this if you have multiple 1gb ports is to enable multipathing.

 

[macrules34]

Okay, it has 4 1GB ports per SP so I could do some multipathing.