SAN - Storage

[Toss Leey]

Hello Genius

I have following SAN storage:

-6 blade server UCS B200 M4 in 5108 chassis with two UCS 6248UP,

Can I increase the capacity of storage up to 45 TB without buy another chassis, what's is the best solution..

Thanks

[Walter Dey · Accepted solution]

Hi

I assume you mean external storage, not local storage on the blade ?

Yes ! there are 2 choices: either connecting a storage Subsystem directly to UCS fabric interconnect, or connect storage Subsystem by means of a SAN to the fabric interconnect.

Walter.

[Toss Leey]

Hi Walter

storage subsystem like another blade server with chassis?, also should i connect

storage subsystem directly to fabric interconnect or fabric extender?

Thanks

[Walter Dey · Accepted solution]

There will be 3 choices (soon !)

- Cisco storage blade in a UCS Chassis (this is SSD based); available soon.

- certified storage subsystems (e.g. Netapp, HDS, EMC,..) connected directly to fabric interconnect (no Connection to fex)

-Storage Subsystems (Netapp, EMC, HDS, IBM,....) connected via SAN to fabric interconnect