For sure.
I'm hoping to gradually transition to, or perhaps just supplement this system with 10gig-e direct links to certain throughput hungry workstations, ie our flame, resolve, etc. I will be discussing what of this is possible with Tiger this week. I started this config using a separate switch, nics and subnet for the metalan but this caused problems with the server. The SAN members were showing up on the wrong NIC's, etc, so I just moved the entire house network + the metalan over to the one fully managed switch and it seems to be working perfectly fine. Our network is pretty small in the grand scheme of things. It's not like we've got 200 people all surfing the web and listening to internet radio all day, etc. The regular "house" network traffic shouldn't be so substantial that it would cause any problem with the metalan co-existing on the same subnet, switch and NIC's. I could be wrong about this, but I would be surprised.
R. Adam Berk
Managing Director
Creative Technology San Francisco
http://www.CT-SF.com
