You're completely right. it's a little different mindset. but making 2 networks just for a storage network sound just dull 😉 problems do arise when you have a predecessor who had the great idea of getting 3 ms350's in a stack, using them as collapsed core, connecting servers and running storage over it. Just because the pre-sales guy at the time did think running on 3 instead off 5 switches was a lot cheaper. He had no idea of a descent network design 😉 We've learned from that and now are using nexus 3k's for storage networks. I just wanted to point out, you not only have to think about network design, but also the setup in the meraki portal like you said.
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