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Leveraging a BladeCenter environment
Figure 8 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 8. Leveraging a BladeCenter environment
Table 7 summarizes the supported components.
Table 7. Components
Adapter
Emulex VFA 2
(Adapter + FoD Key)
RackSwitch G8264CS
NIC
FCoE switch
configuration
pNIC
G8264CS
vNIC2
SAN switch
Storage target
Cisco SAN
Storwize V3700
Brocade SAN
Storwize V7000
SAN Volume
Controller
DS3K/5K
DS8K
Tape
XIV
OS levels
Win2008
WS2012
ESX 4/5
RHEL 5/6
SLES 10/11
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