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Cisco MDS 9222i for IBM System Storage

High performance, flexible, scalable midrange and enterprise multiservice switch

Feature Benefits
Multiservice design
  • Designed to provide cost-efficient:
    • Integrated 4 Gbps Fibre Channel and GbE IP ports
    • SAN extension over IP and FCIP InterVSAN routing firmware included with no additional charges
    • Fibre Channel, FCIP, mainframe FICON® and storage service capabilities for mid-market businesses and global enterprises
Modular design Scalability with one 4-, 12-, 24- or 48-port 4 Gbps FC module
Flexibility with one 8- or 18/4-port IP; Storage Services module
High performance design Support for new 4 Gbps server and storage devices and compatibility with 1 and 2 Gbps helps provide server, storage and switch investment protection
Support for GbE IP networks with FCIP compression, write acceleration and tape acceleration helps maximum utilisation of limited WAN bandwidth
Auto-sensing 4, 2 and 1 Gbps ports
  • Designed to help:
    • Enable high performance and improved utilisation
    • Enable rapid switch deployment with minimal configuration
    • Provide easy installation and manageability
Redundant, swappable power supplies Improve availability because power supply failure does not cause a switch failure
Improve availability because power supply may be replaced without requiring the switch to reboot
Hot-swappable SFP transceivers Support fast and easy replacement of copper and optical transceivers with no tools required
Non-disruptive firmware upgrades
  • Designed to help:
    • significantly reduce software installation time
    • Enable fast software upgrades
    • avoid disruption to existing fabric when installing updates
    • reduce administrative overhead
Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco CLI, third party management tools
  • Designed to help:
    • Simplify installation and fabric management for Cisco MDS 9000 customer
    • Simplify business continuity solutions with integrated IP and FC management
    • Integration with IBM TotalStorage® Productivity centre for Fabric
Advanced security capabilities secure sensitive data in-flight over public networks using hardware-based encryption
isolate users of a consolidated SAN infrastructure using VirtualSAN, VSAN and FCIP InterVSAN routing
provide additional security capabilities for large enterprise SAN infrastructures using the Enterprise Package feature
Cisco MDS 9000 Enterprise Package simplify SAN consolidation with advanced security capabilities for secure infrastructure simplification solutions
Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Server Package simplify management of large enterprise SAN infrastructures
Cisco MDS 9000 Mainframe Package provide FICON connectivity for IBM mainframe servers and storage with single feature including FICON CUP, FICON/FCP intermix, FICON cascading and Fabric Binding
Compatibility with Cisco MDS 9000 family provide switch investment protection for existing fabrics
allow use for device aggregation at remote site and FCIP connectivity with enterprise data centre Cisco MDS 9500 directors
Wide range of IBM supported servers and storage products provide flexible choice of servers, storage, software and switches for creation of IT simplification and business continuity solutions with worldwide IBM service and support
Energy efficient package Offer up to 27 percent reduction in power and cooling per port with twenty-two ports compared to the prior generation modular switch with sixteen ports
Offer up to 33 percent reduced power and cooling per port with twenty-four and forty-eight ports Fibre Channel modules compared to the prior generation sixteen and thirty port modules

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