Which network protocols are supported by SAN storage?

A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a dedicated network for block-level data access. Huawei OceanStor systems support a variety of block-access protocols to ensure compatibility with different infrastructure environments. Fibre Channel (FC) is the industry standard for high-performance enterprise SANs, offering dedicated, low-latency, and lossless delivery. iSCSI provides block-level storage over standard TCP/IP Ethernet networks, making it a flexible and cost-effective alternative for many organizations.

InfiniBand (Option B)is a high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect protocol often used in High-Performance Computing (HPC) and specialized SAN clusters to connect compute nodes to storage pools at extremely high speeds.NFS (Option D)is excluded from this answer because it is aNAS (Network Attached Storage)protocol. NFS (Network File System) provides file-level access rather than block-level access. While modern Huawei systems like the OceanStor Dorado series are "Unified Storage" (supporting both SAN and NAS on the same hardware), technically, only A, B, and C are considered SAN protocols.