What I have:

• Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY BX600
• Brocade 200E (16 port, 4gbit fibre).

My question:

1. Imagine a QNAP with a fiber 10GBIT card connected to the Brocade 200E (16 port, 4gbit fibre). Would this work; would the card drop down to 4GBIT?
2. Are 10GBIT fiber cards backwards completable.

Update. I have the specs of my server now....

Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY BX600 S3 Blade Ecosystem Blade Chassis comprising;

• 2 x A3C40073243 Blade Management modules
• 2 x A3C40089238 GBE Switch Blade SB9F 30/12
• 2 x A3C40085736 4Gb 10 port pass through blades
• 1 x A3C40083767 Digital KVM Modules
• 2 x A3C40073245 Fan enclosures + cooling fans
• 4 x A3C40073262 Power Supplies

My Goals and Objectives

• To have a blade system in place for 8 blades for video rendering, the other 2 for database and scripts etc
• The system will be built on VMWARE ESXi 5
• Use ISCSI on the QNAP to support HA and vmotion if needed
• Users to access the qnap for video editing
• QANAP has 12 drive (2 x (6 HDD in RAID 10)