This is a recent case study by Intel of Hansa Metallwerke, a German manufacturer that doubled LAN and storage network performance with IntelĀ® Ethernet 10 Gigabit Converged Network Adapters and StorMagics SvSAN
The environment detailed here is the ideal set-up for achieving optimal Storage Virtual Appliance performance. Joachim Stainczyk of Stainczyk and partner achieved 800 mb/s speeds. Creditplus bank is using this configuration.