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There are three questions here:
1. A standard vanilla Ethernet switch does not provide the components you might be accustomed to from Fibre Channel switches. The services of a FC switch (particularly the simple name services, known as iSNS for
iSCSI) have to reside somewhere in the iSCSI SAN but vanilla Ethernet switches aren't designed to run them. Probably in some other system.
The Nishan switches, now a part of McData'a product line, support the
Ethernet/IP versions of Fibre Channel switch services but they are not exactly vanilla Ethernet switches.
2. Zoning does not exist in Ethernet. No big deal, there are two other technologies for fencing traffic: VLANs and MPLS.
3. Any move to 10 GB of anything will require a backbone makeover (my opinion, not necessarily based on engineering plans).
Marc
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