Which recommendation should you provide to this customer for replacing the FC switches while remaining cost-effective?

A customer is planning a technology update to its current solution. The customer has an existing Storage Area Network (SAN) based on IBM SAN32B-2 Fibre Channel (FC) switches. For resilience, the customer has created a two-SAN Fabric, each having 2 x SAN32B-2 switches, licensed for 24 ports each and connected together by  2 x Inter switch Links (ISL). All the legacy Intel-based severs have 2 Gb or 4 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) Host Bus Adapters (HBA) installed and are due to be replaced. However, due to project delays, the two-server solution currently in use must remain in production to provide legacy application support to the business. (The first server has a pair of 2 Gb FC HBAs installed and the second server has a pair of 4 Gb FC HBAs installed.)

Which recommendation should you provide to this customer for replacing the FC switches while remaining cost-effective?
A . Single SAN48B-5 with full port licensing and 8 Gb Short Wave SFP’s installed
B . Single SAN96B-5 with 72 port licensed and 16 Gb Short Wave SFP’s installed
C . Pair of SAN06B-R with full port licensing and 8 Gb Short Wave SFP’s installed
D . Pair of SAN24B-4 with full port licensing and 16 Gb Short Wave SFP’s installed

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Answer: A