An entry-level multiprotocol router designed to connect two Storage Area Networks over a wide distance using the Internet as the interconnect fabric. Intended to support business continuity solutions between IBM Power™ Systems or System x™ servers at one site and IBM System Storage™ disk or tape devices at a distant location.
Ports
Two active Fibre Channel ports and two Ethernet Internet Protocol (IP) ports
Link speeds
4 Gigibits per second (Gbps) auto-sensing Fibre Channel and 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) Ethernet
Operating systems
Microsoft® Windows®, AIX®, Unix®, Linux® and OS/400®
Optional features
Optical and copper transceivers (SFPs), fibre optic cables, Performance Monitor, Trunking Activation, country-specific power cords
High performance medium-size and enterprise SAN router provides sixteen 1, 2 and 4 Gbps Fiber Channel switch ports and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports for fabric switching, interconnection of multiple Fibre Channel fabrics and hardware-assisted traffic processing for long-distance extension using Internet Protocol. A variety of short wave and long wave Small Form-factor Pluggable optical transceivers are supported. The base router includes WEB TOOLS and Advanced Zoning, FC-FC Routing Service, FCIP Tunneling Service and Extended Fabric.
Ports
18 ports (16 FC and 2 IP)
Link speeds
1, 2 and 4 Gbps Fibre Channel and GbE IP using short wave or long wave optical transceivers
Operating systems
IBM System i™, System p™ and System x™ families of servers and other selected IBM servers, other Intel® processor-based servers, and selected Sun and HP servers
Optional features
FCIP Activation, Advanced Security, Inter-Switch Link (ISL) Trunking, and Performance Monitoring.
The Cisco MDS 9222i for IBM System Storage™ is designed to address the needs of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises with a wide range of Storage Area Network (SAN) capabilities. It can be used as a cost-effective high performance SAN extension over IP router switch for midrange SMB customers in support of IT simplification and business continuity solutions. It can also be used as a remote site router switch for device aggregation and SAN extension over IP to data center directors for large enterprise customers.
Optional Features
Assorted optical and copper transceivers and cables; MDS 9200 Enterprise, Fabric Manager Server, 8-port and 18/4-port SAN Extension over IP, Mainframe, Storage Service Enabler Packages; 4 port 10 Gbps ISL; 12, 24, 48 port 4 Gbps FC; 8 port IP and18 FC/4 IP port; Storage Services (32 2 Gbps FC) modules
