If you reallly, reaaaly wanted to go down this path, you could get something like:
http://www.perle.com/products/10gbase-t-standalone-media-converters.shtml
It might be reliable as anything, but you get exactly (0) support.
I would suggest that if you are even thinking that you need 10gbe on the p4000 it may be worth looking at another solution such as the 3par. If you really want to bodge something together then that is about your only option.
The reality is, 10GbaseT is not really a great system - it is power hungry and relies on pushing copper cables to the limit of their capacity, leaving little in reserve.
The other elephant in the room is that most of the inexpensive 10GbaseT switch manufacturers are pretty crappy as well - do you really want to trust your storage network to a crappy broadcom based zero port buffer netgear etc?
The P4000/storvirtual is really great if you want high availablity etc, but if you really want low latency and high throughput you are probably better off to look at something like 3par and at this point fibrechannel is actually likely to come out more reliable and better performing.
When I think of the use cases for P4000 I think co-location, where U space is at a premium and performance is not so important, but reliablity and replication is paramount.
After attempting to run a hosting environment for a number of years on this technology, it was obvious that 3par was a better choice for performance in every way.
Keep in mind, it only takes about 4 p4000 nodes before you are in 3par territory now that the 7000 series is in play.
Regards.
David Tocker
