Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID) — Question 99

An engineer must connect a new storage appliance to a Cisco UCS domain.
• The storage array must be directly attached to Cisco UCS fabric interconnects.
• Connectivity between UCS and SAN must use 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
• The solution should use lossless QoS system class.
• Network and storage traffic must traverse different uplinks.

Which port types must be used between the fabric interconnect and the storage appliance?

Answer options

• A. FCoE storage port - appliance port
• B. FcoE uplink port - Ethernet uplink port
• C. Fibre Channel storage port - appliance port
• D. Fibre Channel storage port - Ethernet uplink port

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is A because FCoE storage ports are specifically designed to connect to storage appliances and support the required lossless QoS. Options B, C, and D are incorrect as they do not meet all the specified requirements for the connection between the UCS fabric interconnects and the storage appliance.