You are the senior desktop administrator for Company.com. One of your potential customers is planning to deploy blade servers for the first time but he is hesitating what the consequences will be for his I/O connectivity. Which of the following would be the most reasonable response?
A. Cisco blade server switches are external, rack-mountable devices that are designed to complement the form factor of blade server chassis from many major vendors. These include vendor-specific cable management systems for ease of connection from the switch to the blade servers.
B. Cisco has solutions for blade server IP switches and Fibre Channel switches that fit inside the blade server chassis for many major vendors. Fitting a Cisco switch into a blade server means that compatibility with Cisco’s Catalyst and MDS high-level features can be guaranteed.
C. Cisco supports blade server I/O only when it leaves the blade server chassis. All blade server I/O is compatible with Cisco’s Catalyst and Multilayer DataCenter Switch families of switches.
D. Cisco has solutions for blade server IP switches that fit inside the blade server chassis for many major vendors. Cisco does not have a blade server switch for Fibre Channel because all storage connections for blade servers should use only iSCSI.
