Is it possible to connect the storage system and the server via 10GbEthernet and run Fiber Chanel and iSCSI on it?

Question

Data center

There is a blade chassis, which is connected to the storage system via 10gbEthernet with two cables. Whether it is possible to start up the Fiber Chanel and ISCSI protocols here?

Answer 1

Depends on server configuration (+ blade IO) and storage.

Answer 2

there will be a small data center for an animation studio ... mainly for working with video streams

Answer 3

There are switches in the blade chassis, there are mezzanine cards in the blade servers, if they support FCoE, then the chassis can be connected to the storage system (accordingly, the storage system must support FCoE).
Read, for example, about the HP ConvergedSystem CS700x habrahabr.ru/company/hp/blog/214597 , it is even drawn there.

Answer 4

Depends on the support of these protocols in the chassis and storage, you would give the name of the models.

Answer 5

HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure Blade Chassis
HP ProLiant WS460c Gen8
NetApp FAS2220 Blade Workstation

Answer 6

What switches are in the chassis?
If there is something like BLc VC FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port, then install HP 8Gb Short Wave B-Series SFP+ and connect via FC to FAS2240 .
FAS2220 can only iscsi, then you connect using it, via regular Ehernet (not the best choice).

Answer 7

The chassis has modules for NEXUS, a Nexus switch from Cisco.
Why isn't Ethernet the best choice? Cheaper than FC and 10gb speed is not bad.