Does Meraki Switces support ISCSI?

AnkitSharma1
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Does Meraki Switces support ISCSI?

Can we use the Meraki Switches ?

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Mloraditch
Head in the Cloud

In general yes they do but depending on your exact scenario you will want to look at the specs necessary for your storage device and then compare with Meraki's performance for the models you have or are looking at.

For simpler storage devices you will probably be fine, if you are getting into enterprise SANs, I'd be looking at dedicated storage switching from the regular Cisco product line.

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AnkitSharma1
Here to help

We do have DellEMC storage that uses ISCSI 

Inderdeep
Kind of a big deal

Yes it is supported 

www.thenetworkdna.com
GIdenJoe
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

iSCSI runs on IP.
IP runs on ethernet.
Meraki switches are ethernet switches, so this will work just fine.

There is in fact nothing special about iSCSI switches...but for a way of the server vendors to sell their gear.  The only thing that can matter is the performance of the switch.  Which means, uplink bandwidth, oversubscription and buffer sizes.  Meraki switches are aimed and access layer and not exactly datacenter so the buffers won't be the biggest but if you make sure you design with the correct port speeds, the buffers shouldn't be an issue.

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