Refer to the exhibit.

Customer would like to utilize Cisco Nexus7000 series switches as converged Ethernet aggregation and SAN
core switch in their new data center design. The switch can be connected to a Cisco MDS 9500 Series switch
in a three-tier edge-core-edge SAN design as shown in the exhibit. Which technology makes this type of
design possible?

A.
FC forwarding

B.
Multi-hop FCoE

C.
iSCSI gateway to increase network bandwidth

D.
vPC+

E.
NAS gateway at the aggregation layer