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| Multiservice design |
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- 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
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| Modular design |
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Scalability with one 4-, 12-, 24- or 48-port 4 Gbps FC module or one 4/44-port 8 Gbps FC module or one 4-port 10 Gbps FC module; Flexibility with one 8- or 18/4-port IP; Storage Services module |
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| High performance design |
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Support for new 4 Gbps server and storage devices and compatibility with 1 , 2 and 8 Gbps helps provide server, storage and switch investment protection
Support for GbE IP networks with FCIP compression, write acceleration and tape acceleration helps maximum utilization of limited WAN bandwidth |
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| Auto-sensing 4, 2 and 1 Gbps ports |
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- Designed to help:
- Enable high performance and improved utilization
- Enable rapid switch deployment with minimal configuration
- Provide easy installation and manageability
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| Redundant, swappable power supplies |
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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 |
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| Hot-swappable SFP transceivers |
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Support fast and easy replacement of copper and optical transceivers with no tools required |
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| Non-disruptive firmware upgrades |
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- Designed to help:
- significantly reduce software installation time
- Enable fast software upgrades
- avoid disruption to existing fabric when installing updates
- reduce administrative overhead
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| Cisco Fabric Manager, Cisco CLI, third party management tools |
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- 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 Center for Fabric
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| Advanced security capabilities |
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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 |
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| Cisco MDS 9000 Enterprise Package |
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simplify SAN consolidation with advanced security capabilities for secure infrastructure simplification solutions |
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| Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Server Package |
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simplify management of large enterprise SAN infrastructures |
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| Cisco MDS 9000 Mainframe Package |
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provide FICON connectivity for IBM mainframe servers and storage with single feature including FICON CUP, FICON/FCP intermix, FICON cascading and Fabric Binding |
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| Compatibility with Cisco MDS 9000 family |
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provide switch investment protection for existing fabrics
allow use for device aggregation at remote site and FCIP connectivity with enterprise data center Cisco MDS 9500 directors |
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| Wide range of IBM supported servers and storage products |
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provide flexible choice of servers, storage, software and switches for creation of IT simplification and business continuity solutions with worldwide IBM service and support |
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| Energy efficient package |
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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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