A company has just refreshed the hardware in its datacenter with new 10G Ethernet switches.
A technician wishes to set up a new storage area network but must use existing infrastructure.
Which of the following storage standards should the technician use?
A.
iSCSI B.
Fibre Channel C.
NAS D.
InfiniBand.
C.
A company has just refreshed the hardware in its datacenter with new 10G Ethernet switches.
A technician wishes to set up a new storage area network but must use existing infrastructure.
Which of the following storage standards should the technician use?
A.
iSCSI
B.
Fibre Channel
C.
NAS
D.
InfiniBand.
C.
The technician must use existing infrastructure, which consists of new 10G Ethernet switches. Therefore, the storage standard that is most suitable for this scenario is iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface).
iSCSI is a storage protocol that allows block-level storage data to be transported over an Ethernet network. It is an affordable alternative to Fibre Channel (FC) storage, which is a dedicated high-speed network technology for block-level storage. iSCSI is compatible with standard Ethernet networks, making it an ideal choice for the current scenario.
Fibre Channel (FC) is a dedicated high-speed network technology for block-level storage. It uses a separate network infrastructure from the Ethernet network and requires specialized hardware, which is not present in the existing infrastructure. Therefore, FC is not the best option in this scenario.
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a file-level storage technology that uses standard Ethernet networks to provide file sharing capabilities. While it is compatible with Ethernet networks, it is not designed for block-level storage.
InfiniBand is a high-speed networking technology primarily used in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. It is not commonly used for storage networking and is not compatible with Ethernet networks.
Therefore, the most suitable storage standard for the technician to use in this scenario is iSCSI.