Lync on Blade Servers supported?

Hi All,
is it supported to deploy Lync 2013 Frontend Servers on Blade Servers?
The reason for the question is: the Blade Servers use a Converged Network Adapter. As far as I know this is shared between multiple blade Servers. For Frontend Servers, TechNet recommends dedicated network interfaces with teaming.
The Blade servers also share a SAN and boot from there. Is this supported?
Many Thanks in Advance,
Hanno98

I would think that would be supported yes, if you think about it, it's really no different than a virtual environment which is also supported. Virtual servers share network adapters and boot from SAN storage. You're just dedicating resources
here. Recommended isn't always a must.
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