350-601 Storage Network Practice Question
A storage administrator needs to isolate traffic between two departments on the same Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure. Each department has its own storage array and hosts. Which technology should be used to create separate logical fabrics without additional hardware?
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VSANs
VSANs (Virtual SANs) allow partitioning of a single physical Fibre Channel fabric into multiple isolated logical fabrics, similar to VLANs in Ethernet.
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NPV
Why it's wrong here
NPV is used to scale edge switches, not for fabric isolation.
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VSANs
Why this is correct
VSANs create isolated logical fabrics over a physical infrastructure.
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Zoning
Why it's wrong here
Zoning restricts communication between devices within the same fabric, but does not isolate the entire fabric.
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PortChannels
Why it's wrong here
PortChannels aggregate multiple links for bandwidth and redundancy, not isolation.
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