Thank you darknight, regarding the NICs, yea I could go for 10Gb. But all my other network components (Switches, firewalls) are either 10/100 or 10/100/1000Gb. Plus I rather use multiple ports for SMB multi-path than using couple of 10Gb ports. If you have any suggestions, please do reply. regards, ...

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Hi, I'm new to this product and recently downloaded a trial. My question is regarding the hardware I plan to buy to create virtual SAN I'm thinking of the following: HP DL380 Gen9 24SFF Server x2 Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 1.6GHz. 6-Core Processor x1 HP 32GB PC4-2133 L-RDIMM 12G 300GB 10K SAS HDD x2 for ...