Your customer has an existing Fibre Channel SAN but wants to reduce the number of cables and connect their new UP BladeSystem c7000 chassis to the SAN. The customer wants to use the onboard LAN on mot

Virtual Connect FlexFabric modules create a unified fabric that carries both standard Ethernet and FCoE traffic through a single interconnect in the c7000 chassis. This allows G7 blade server onboard LOMs to reach the existing Fibre Channel SAN without requiring dedicated FC mezzanine HBAs, directly addressing the customer's goals of using LOMs and reducing cable count compared to separate LAN and SAN cabling.

Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules support only Ethernet traffic and have no FCoE or native Fibre Channel capability, so blade LOMs cannot reach an FC SAN through them.

Virtual Connect Fibre Channel modules require dedicated FC mezzanine HBAs installed in each blade, not onboard LOMs, which contradicts the customer's stated requirement.

HP ProCurve 10GbE modules are pure Ethernet switches with no Fibre Channel or FCoE support and cannot provide connectivity to a Fibre Channel SAN.