Minor update.
I haven’t changed anything today yet but did image a lab this morning. While the lab was going I didn’t see a single occurrence of a machine getting the error I had before (unable to mount) with two storage nodes active. I had no discernible slowdowns while imaging one machine at gig while simultaneously imaging 7 others at 100 Mb (old 2950 switches still in this building). I was also seeing traffic coming off of more than one vNIC according to VMWare.
Until I try and do 4-6 or more simultaneous imaging tasks at Gig on the new network I won’t know for sure if the > 1000 Mb/s throughput “barrier” is broken.
I’ve got one last model’s image I’m uploading today, then I’ll do the trunk upgrade and do some more tests to see how things look.