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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
Emulex VFA 2
(Adapter + FoD Key)
RackSwitch G8264CS
NIC mode FCoE switch
pNIC G8264CS
vNIC2
SAN switch Storage target
Cisco SAN Storwize V3700
Brocade SAN Storwize V7000
SAN Volume
Controller
DS3K/5K
DS8K
XIV
Tape
OS levels
Win2008
WS2012
ESX 4/5
RHEL 5/6
SLES 10/11
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