Storage is an integral part of any infrastructure. It is used to store the files backing your virtual machines. There are different types of storage that can be incorporated into a virtual infrastructure, and these types are determined based on a variety of factors, such as the type of disks used, the type of storage protocol used, and the type of connectivity used. The most common way to refer to a type of storage presented to a VMware environment is based on the protocol used and the connection type.
VMware supports the following types of storage based on the protocol and connection type in use:
Fiber Channel (FC) storage: This connects over the FC SAN fabric network. It uses the FC protocol to encapsulate the SCSI commands. Hosts connect to the FC network using an FC Host Bus Adapter (FC-HBA). The core of the FC network are the fabric switches that enable connecting the hosts and storage arrays to the network.
FC over Ethernet (FCoE): This connects over an FCoE-converged network...