The CIO of a regional banking company indicates that the bank needs to open a new data center to
handle an increase in business and to properly protect the data of their customers. The new data center
will initially contain 25 servers and Fibre Channel-based storage. After the first two years, a minimum
of 30 additional servers and any necessary storage will be added. These additional servers will include
both rack and blade type servers. Due to current economic conditions, the bank needs to preserve cash
and wants to purchase only components to handle the initial business need. The CIO also mentions
that TCO is important to the CEO. The CIO does not want to have to replace any of the infrastructure
components when expanding the data center in the future.Which type of SAN infrastructure is
recommended as a solution for this bank?

A.
midrange level SAN with HP B-Series switches

B.
entry-level SAN with HP H-Series switches

C.
embedded switches with HP C-Series switches

D.
Converged Infrastructure SAN with DCB