If I have a switch, nothing special set up, just regular traffic, no jumbo frames, no special iSCSI set up, can I still have iSCSI traffic, say from a Windows machine using the iSCSI initiator and a SAN across that uses said switch device?
Granted I might want to use the jumbo frames, but do I need a switch that has an iSCSI "mode"?
EDIT: I have a Dell Powerconnect 6224 and it has an option for iSCSI enable. Right now I have iSCSI running on it with no jumbo frames. It's a very small set of devices.
iSCSI Enable
setting. They're configuring specific settings that they deem to be optimal for iSCSI traffic, such as Jumbo Frames, Spanning Tree PortFast, Flow Control and Storm Control. I wouldn't call that iSCSI mode, but I see what they're doing.