Leveraging a BladeCenter environment
Figure 7 shows an example of how a client can use a BladeCenter environment. The client reduces costs inside the
chassis with a single adapter in the blade, with a 10 Gb Ethernet adapter only in the chassis. The client can use the
G8264CS at the top of the rack or somewhere else in the data center, breaking out the FC connections and
connecting to the existing SAN switches, and then to the storage devices.
Figure 7. Leveraging a BladeCenter environment
Table 8 summarizes the supported components.
Table 8. Components
Adapter
NIC mode
FCoE switch
SAN switch
Storage target
OS levels
Emulex VFA 2
(A FoD Key)
pNIC
vNIC2
G8264CS
Cisco SAN
Brocade SAN
Storwize V3700
Storwize V7000
SAN Volume
Controller
DS3K/5K
DS8K
XIV
Tape
Win2008
WS2012
ESX 4/5
RHEL 5/6
SLES 10/11
RackSwitch G8264CS
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