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Featured Storage Networking Products
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Directors and Modular Switches
Adopt intelligent features of a high-performance, multi-protocol switch fabric. Address requirements of large data center environments.
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MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
- Deploys highly scalable, high-performance SANs
- Maintains low total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Meets requirements of large, virtualized data centers
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Cisco Storage Networking Modules
- Delivers up to 48 high-performance, reliable ports per line card
- Supports 2-, 4-, and 8-Gbps Fibre Channel and FICON connectivity
- Optimizes Fibre Channel and FICON extension over IP for WAN to SAN
- Implements powerful service engines for fabric-based storage applications
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Fabric and Blade Server Switches
Integrate compact, cost-effective SAN connectivity for applications ranging from small fabrics to large data centers and intelligent SANs.
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Cisco MDS 9100 Multilayer Fabric Switches
- Provides enterprise-level capabilities, such as virtualization and security
- Delivers highly reliable and available performance
- Reduces TCO
- Optimizes virtual server environments
- Simplifies configuration and management
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Cisco MDS 9100 Blade Server Switches
- Delivers affordable and intelligent storage networking services
- Implements highly available platform for mission-critical deployments
- Employs comprehensive security framework
- Simplifies storage management and speeds troubleshooting
- Reduces TCO using common platform architecture
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Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch
- Adopts state-of-the-art multiprotocol and distributed multiservice convergence
- Facilitates high-performance SAN extension and disaster recovery solutions
- Implements intelligent fabric services, such as data migration and I/O acceleration
- Delivers cost-effective multiprotocol connectivity
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Cisco MDS 9000 Software
Deploy a highly adaptable, standards-compliant operating environment. Unify your SAN and LAN into a single data center network.
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Cisco NX-OS Software for MDS 9000
- Delivers enterprise-class operating software based on SAN-OS
- Unifies operating environments for SAN and LAN
- Enables VM-aware SANs
- Supports advanced storage services within the fabric
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Cisco Data Mobility Manager
- Allows you to migrate LUNs while in use
- Supports array replacements and moving to a larger LUN
- Reduces array licensing costs and eliminates host software maintenance
- Migrates up to 9 times faster than Robocopy
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Cisco Storage Media Encryption
- Provides fabric-based encryption for data at rest
- Protects against data loss when media shipped or retired
- Works with existing storage devices
- Simplifies deployment and provisioning
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Cisco I/O Accelerator
- Speeds reading and writing over MANs and WANs
- Supports acceleration, compression, and encryption for backup and replication
- Provides clustered service nodes for high availability
- Allows transparent and non-disruptive insertion
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Cisco MDS 9000 SAN Management
Manage Cisco MDS 9000 switches and directors with Fabric Manager GUI, Cisco CLI, or partner applications using industry-standard APIs.
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Cisco Fabric Manager
- Implements comprehensive GUI for SAN management of MDS and Nexus switches
- Simplifies management of large SANs and multiple fabrics
- Uses wizards for common operations
- Eliminates licensing or added cost
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All Storage Products
Multiprotocol storage networking is central to the Cisco Data Center 3.0 architecture. It is a platform for achieving lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enhanced resilience, and greater agility. The Cisco MDS 9000 family of products is globally deployed by thousands of customers in networks of varying size. It supports many of the most demanding application environments.
Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Switches
Cisco MDS 9100 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches
Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS and SAN-OS Software
Cisco MDS 9000 Services-Oriented SANs
Cisco SAN Management
Cisco MDS 9000 Port Analyzer Adapters
Storage Networking Solutions
When your data center environment changes, your infrastructure must evolve quickly. Your storage solutions must improve resiliency, increase business responsiveness, and respond to the growing demands of new applications. At the same time, rising energy costs require reductions in overall power consumption.
SAN Infrastructure Solutions
Cisco MDS 9000 SANs provide a high-performance and agile infrastructure that reduces costs and simplifies management.
Data Center Virtualization
Provide a feature set similar to those available with physical servers and support virtualization.
SAN Consolidation
Reduce business risk, improve agility, and reduce costs with multiprotocol storage networking and a variety of SAN connectivity options.
Mainframe I/O Infrastructure
Implement a fully qualified and comprehensive feature set for IBM System z environments -- plus channel extension capabilities.
Solutions for SAN Operations
By deploying common storage management applications as SAN fabric-based services, you can simplify and complete operations more efficiently.
Data Migration
Implement transparent data migration without additional virtualization layers and support a wide variety of applications.
Business Continuity and Disaster
Build an effective business continuance strategy based on highly available SANs for continuous access to applications and data.
SAN Security
Address security concerns and government regulations for protecting data inside the storage environment with Cisco MDS-based solutions.
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At A Glance
The Cisco Data Center 3.0 architecture relies on multiprotocol storage networking. IT departments using this architecture can achieve lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enhanced resilience, and greater agility.
The Cisco MDS 9000 family helps you create such an architecture with capabilities and benefits such as:
- Services-Oriented SANs: Allow storage services to be deployed transparently. Help enable scalable performance and reliable service to support changing customer needs
- Unified I/O and Fibre Channel over Ethernet: Consolidate separate LAN, SAN, and server cluster network environments into a single unified network
- Investment protection: Chassis shipping since 2002 support 8-Gbps Fibre Channel today and FCoE into the future
- Operational efficiency: Implement the most manageable storage networking platforms in the industry. Features include essential instrumentation, advanced management applications, and standards-based interfaces
- Comprehensive end-to-end virtualization: Deploy virtualization solutions at the network, server, and storage levels. Improve utilization and performance with unique VM-optimized features
Featured Case Study
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University Creates a New Scalable SAN
East Carolina University deploys Cisco MDS Directors to provide a high-performance SAN fabric for reliable backup.
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Coca Cola Bottler Virtualizes Data Center
By consolidating 80 servers into 4, Cisco data center solution is a "force multiplier" for Coca Cola Bottling Company IT department.
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Global Law Firm Picks Cisco for DC Upgrade
McDermott Will & Emery sees a 60 percent reduction in servers through virtualization - with 100 percent SAN connectivity.
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