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 customer
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 copper and optical transceivers with no tools required
Energy efficient package
Offer up to 25 percent reduction in power and cooling per port compared to Cisco MDS 9124 switch
Offer more than 50 percent reduction in power and cooling per port for non-oversubscribed switch compared to Cisco MDS 9216A (16 + 12 FC ports)
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 IT 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 use as edge switch for device aggregation with Cisco MDS 9500 directors with 10 Gbps features
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
