People love to talk bad about iSCSI, especially “Those Other SAN Vendors” (ie: The Fibre Channel People).  I’ve had a couple of vendors tell me iSCSI is not an enterprise solution and I’d never see over 250Mbps of throughput.  I love proving them wrong.

Check out the images below.  Note that the two transfers below were happening SIMULTANEOUSLY to a single Equallogic PS300 SAN.  That’s a combined throughput of 1.06Gbps! iSCSI rocks!  The key is the network really.  High-end switches with big port buffers, jumbo frames, and flow control are a must.