Question : iSCSI Migration Server 2008

I am in the review process for migrating all of my servers to HyperV but regardless I am in need of massive storage increases on my servers. I'm a bit nervous to move to an iSCSI storage solution and I am looking for any advise that can be offered or recommendations.

My plan is to install several applications such as SQL 2000/2005, and Exchange server 2010. I wish to store all of the data for these applications and database on the iSCSI but I am conserned that I will experience performance degredation.

HP C3000 Blade Chassis, with HP BL460C's. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise 64bit Host with combination of 2008 Enterprise and 2003 Enterprise guests on each blade. I have existing Dual Cisco GB Switches. I have full intentions of creating an independant VLAN for the iSCSI's to reside to reduce the number of unecessary traffic.

My iSCSI configuration will probably consist of 7 SATA 1TB drives in a RAID5 for general storage such as roaming profiles and ect. Then I will have 7 15K SCSI drives in a raid hosting databases and other sql data that requires a bit more IO.

Questions:

What Manufacturer would you recommend for an iSCSI solution/target server?
How should I partition the target raids? Should I create separate Partitions 1 for each server?
Should I build a separate Partition for the LDF and other Log Files? Should each of the Servers have there own partition for each LDF and Log Files?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer : iSCSI Migration Server 2008

No, you'd need an additional dual-port mezzanine NIC in each blade. If you don't want any redundancy you could just use the one switch you've already got and use one onboard NIC port as the LAN and the other one as the SAN of course, then the MSA2012i would be the cheapest supported SAN box.