From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon.kim@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.