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Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM System Storage

Intelligent storage networking for IBM System Storage solutions

  
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Feature Benefits
Supervisor-2 Module
  • Intelligent control module, high performance crossbar switch fabric designed for high performance and availability

  • Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) multipath routing can load balance and dynamically reroute traffic if a switch fails
Fibre channel switching module options
  • Designed to allow you to optimize performance, flexibility and density based on your business needs

  • Advanced traffic management capabilities help simplify deployment and optimize performance

  • PortChannel capability allows you to aggregate up to 16 physical ISL links into a single logical bundle
12-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
  • Designed to deliver high performance for the most demanding storage networking applications.

  • Well suited for attaching highest-performance 4 Gbps enabled servers and storage subsystems
24-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
  • Provides a balance between performance and scalability

  • Designed to deliver sustained bandwidth required to meet the performance requirements of enterprise-class storage and servers.
48-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
  • Designed to deliver sustained bandwidth required to meet a wide range performance requirements for a mixture of SMB and enterprise-class storage and servers
4-port 10 Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
  • Designed to deliver high bandwidth links for metro business continuity solutions

  • Connectivity up to 10km
Non-disruptive software upgrades and hardware redundancy
  • Designed to reduce planned an unplanned downtime
Virtual SAN capability
  • Designed to improve efficiency by creating multiple isolated environments in a single SAN fabric

  • Designed to provide segregation and security of traffic from multiple SANs on shared hardware
Comprehensive security framework
  • Designed to provide extensive security measures at possible points of attack to help prevent unauthorized management access and snooping



 
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