A. Based on the powerful new family of Intel Xeon-5600 processors, the EMC VNX implements a modular architecture that inregrates hardware components for block, file and object with concurrent support for native NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel and FCoE protocols. The series delivers file NAS functionality via two-to-eight X-Blade data movers and block [iSCSI, FCoE,and FC] storage via dual storage processors leveraging full 6 GB SAS disk drive topology. You an also start with block or file functionality.