A systems administrator is tasked with deploying a new storage solution for a video editing team that works with large 4K files. The primary requirements are high throughput, low latency, and block-level storage access over the existing 10 GigE network. Which of the following solutions BEST meets these requirements?
The correct answer is an iSCSI SAN. A Storage Area Network (SAN) provides block-level access to storage, which makes the storage appear as a local disk to the operating system and is ideal for performance-sensitive applications like video editing. The Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) protocol is designed to transport block-level storage traffic over standard TCP/IP networks, such as the existing 10 GigE Ethernet infrastructure mentioned in the scenario.
A Fibre Channel (FC) SAN also provides block-level storage but requires a dedicated and separate Fibre Channel network infrastructure (specialized switches and Host Bus Adapters), not the existing Ethernet network.
A Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance using the Network File System (NFS) protocol provides file-level access, not the required block-level access.
A Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD) array is a collection of disks presented as individual volumes and is typically direct-attached, not a shared network storage solution suitable for a team of editors.