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Cisco MDS 9124 Express for IBM System Storage

Designed for ease of use in high-performance SAN environments

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Feature Benefits
Quick Configuration Wizard
  • Helps reduce deployment and management complexities for first time SAN buyers
On-Demand Port Activation
  • Scalable pricing enables a pay-as-you-grow strategy
Redundant, swappable power supplies
  • Improves availability because power supply failure does not cause a switch failure
  • Improves availability because power supply may be replaced without requiring the switch to reboot
Cisco Fabric Manager and Cisco CLI

Designed to help:

  • Simplify installation and fabric management for Cisco MDS 9000 customers
  • Simply SAN consolidation with Cisco MDS 9000 family SAN fabrics
Auto-sensing 4, 2 and 1 Gbps ports

Designed to help:

  • Enable high performance and improved utilization
  • Enable rapid switch deployment with minimal configuration
  • Provide easy installation and manageability
  • Support new 4 Gbps server and storage devices
Hot-swappable SFP transceivers
  • Support fast and easy replacement of optical transceivers with no tools required
High density package
  • Provide 50% more ports than traditional 16 port switches
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
Wide range of IBM supported servers and storage products
  • Provide flexible choice of servers, storage, software and switches for creation of infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions with worldwide IBM service and support
Compatibility with Cisco MDS 9000 family
  • Provide switch investment protection for existing fabrics
  • Allow inter-operation with Cisco MDS 9000 products
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

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