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Cisco MDS 9148 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, creating a readily available SAN environment for small and midsized business (SMB) applications
On-Demand Port Activation
  • Scalable pricing enables a pay-as-you-grow strategy
Redundant, swappable power supplies
  • Improves availability because a power supply failure does not cause a switch failure
  • Improves availability because the power supply may be replaced without requiring the switch to reboot
Cisco Data Center Network Manager and Cisco CLI
  • Designed to provide a robust framework and comprehensive feature set that meets the routing, switching and storage administration needs of present and future virtualized data centers
  • Helps simply SAN consolidation with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of SAN fabrics
Autosensing 8-,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 8 Gbps server and storage devices
Hot-swappable SFP transceivers
  • Supports fast and easy replacement of optical transceivers with no tools required
Nondisruptive firmware upgrades Designed to:
  • Help significantly reduce software installation time
  • Enable fast software upgrades
  • Help avoid disruption to existing fabric when installing updates
  • Help reduce administrative overhead
Wide range of IBM-supported servers and storage products
  • 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 the Cisco MDS 9000 family
  • Helps provide switch investment protection for existing fabrics
  • Allows interoperation with Cisco MDS 9000 products
Cisco MDS 9000 Enterprise Package
  • Helps simplify SAN consolidation with advanced security capabilities for secure infrastructure simplification solutions
Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Server Package
  • Helps simplify management of large enterprise SAN infrastructures

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