A fast-growing company is planning an acquisition that will add significantly to their customer
base and their data center workload. Environment with 1 Gb Ethernet and 8 Gb Fibre
Channel networks in place. They are open to new technologies and are willing to reduce
cost-effective over time.
Which infrastructure purchases should you include in your proposal?
A.
Converged Network Switches and implementing FCoE
B.
10 Gb Ethernet switches and implementing iSCSI
C.
10 Gb Ethernet switches and implementing NFS
D.
16 Gb Fibre Channel switches and implementing FCIP
Explanation:
FCoE fabric topologies
FCoE technology allows you to converge Ethernet and Fibre Channel technology, providing
significant cable,adapter, and switch consolidation. All HP-supported Fibre Channel
topologies are supported integrated withFCoE at the Fibre Channel fabric edge. HP also
supports end-to-end FCoE solutionsfor the P63xx/P65xx EVA storage systems with the
FCoE target interface and P6000 (formerly EVA) storage using the MPX200 Multifunction
Router.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet is a protocol in which Fibre Channel frames can be sent over
Ethernet networks. This allows Fibre Channel to use 10-GbE networks while preserving the
Fibre Channel protocol. The convergence of Ethernet and FC provides the same level of
connectivity as each individual technology provides separately, but requires:
50% fewer switches in each server rackâOnly two converged network ToR
switches, compared with four switches per rack with separate Ethernet and FC
switches (two network and two FC)
50% fewer adapters per server
75% fewer cable connections