An engineer must connect a storage array directly to an existing Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect. The customer requires a solution that provides IP-based storage that does not need to be connected throu

iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface) is an IP-based block-level storage protocol, which typically requires a file system on the client side to access files, not direct file access from the host.

FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is a block-level storage protocol that encapsulates Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet, requiring Fibre Channel HBA functionality and presenting block storage, not file-level access.

SAN (Storage Area Network) is a generic term for block-level storage networks (like Fibre Channel or iSCSI) and does not inherently provide direct file-level access from Linux hosts without an operating system-level file system.