What are the drawbacks of a multiprotocol system?
There are a few drawbacks of a multiprotocol system. For example, say you’re working with an application that only supports or strongly prefers block-based access. This could be something like Microsoft Exchange, which has historically been tied to a strong preference, if not an outright supportive need for block-based access. So you’re going to have to go with block, whether it’s Fibre Channel block, SAS block, or iSCSI block. Likewise, some databases have been tied to block. At the same time, some databases like Oracle can run on NAS with certain configurations for a vendor’s products. So it comes back to the particular application. You need to ask yourself: does the application require or prefer a specific technology? What is Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), and when do you think users are going to start seeing CEE products on the market? The Converged Enhanced Ethernet, also known as Data Center Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), is effectively a premium Ethernet th
