Attaching blade servers to SANs

摘要

Some vendors and analysts calculate SAN attach rates by the number of SAN switch blades (or blade switches) shipped to customers, hut that statistic can he deceiving. Nut all blade servers that connect to SANs use switch blades. When a Fibre Channel connection to a SAN is required, blade servers often use a Fibre Channel HBA in combination with a Fibre Channel switch blade or what is called a Fibre Channel pass-through module.