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PowerStore supports iSCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) hosts. NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) is supported with PowerStoreOS 2.0. These protocols can be run simultaneously, but this configuration can add complexity to routing and failover scenarios. Hosts in a clustered environment should be configured to use a single common protocol.
For this configuration, a converged Ethernet environment is used to provide block storage (iSCSI) and file storage (SMB). FC or NVMe/FC can also be used to provide block storage. One advantage to using a converged Ethernet configuration is reduced complexity and cost. Small office, branch office, and edge use cases benefit when minimizing complexity and hardware footprints with converged networks.
In this environment, the following ports and modules are configured in each PowerStore node (node A and node B (see Figure 4):
This configuration provides more than enough bandwidth for the block and file user data load. VLANs are configured for each type of Ethernet traffic to isolate and allow traffic prioritization.