I am creating a virtual enviroment so I can familliarize myself with iscsi initiators and other things on multiple operating systems. I am running workstation 9 with a freenas vm for my storage target with esxi5, xenserver, centos, etc for my initiators. The network is not bound to a physical nic since the storage target and initiators are all running within workstation. I believe I am having an issue connecting iscsi because the network adapters are reporting 100mb instead of gigabit. Is this a limitation of workstation or is there a way I can change the network adapters to operate at 1gb?
The alternative route I suppose I could go is to install iscsi target software on a seperate laptop and connect by bridging into the 1gb physical nic but that is not a very portable solution. I would appreciate some reccomendations.