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 Storage networking provides a platform for IT departments to achieve lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enhanced resilience, and greater business agility. Your data center infrastructure must evolve rapidly to improve resiliency, increase business responsiveness, and keep up with the growing demands of new applications while reducing overall power consumption. |
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Storage costs are growing faster than server costs, increasing the need for efficient and cost-effective storage area networks. In highly competitive environments that comply with government regulations for data recovery, 24-hour access to critical information is imperative.
Cisco Storage Area Networking solutions offer these key benefits and features:
• Multi-protocol storage networking - Reduces business risk by providing flexibility and options - FCP, FICON, FCoE, iSCSI, and FCIP
• Unified OS and Management tools for reduced opex - operational simplicity, seamless interop, and feature consistency
• Enterprise-class storage connectivity to support significantly higher virtualized workloads - availability, scalability, and performance
• Services-Oriented SANs - to extend "Any Network Service to any Device" regardless of Protocol, Speed, Vendor, or Location
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The Cisco MDS 9000 Family consolidation solutions can help you reduce business risk, improve agility, and reduce costs. Enterprise-class storage connectivity provides scalability of up to 528 ports in a single MDS 9513 chassis. ANSI T11-based Virtual SANs (VSANs) let you separate a large physical fabric into multiple, smaller virtual fabrics each with their own set of fabric services using hardware-based data and control plane isolation. Cisco pioneered VSANs seven years ago when the MDS 9000 Family was introduced, and they form the basis of the industry's Virtual Fabric standard. VSANs provide isolation of traffic, fabric faults, and administrative responsibilities.
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Cisco MDS-based solutions address these security concerns and government regulations on protecting data inside the storage environment without slowing or disrupting business-critical applications.
SAN fabrics themselves can be virtualized, enabling the consolidation of multiple physical fabrics into a more scalable, cost-effective infrastructure, just as virtual machines allow you to do with servers.
Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors share a common architecture, the Cisco NX-OS operating system, and switching and services modules that are backward and forward compatible throughout all Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors and 9200 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches.
Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Switches
Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Switches deliver state-of-the-art multiprotocol and distributed multiservice convergence, offering high-performance SAN extension and disaster recovery solutions, intelligent fabric services, and cost-effective multiprotocol connectivity.
Cisco MDS 9100 Series Fabric Switches and Blade Switches
These cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-install, and highly configurable Fibre Channel switches are ideal for small to medium-sized businesses. The fabric switches are also available as blade switch form-factors for market-leading blade servers, including IBM and HP blade servers.
Cisco MDS 9000 Series Intelligent Fabric Applications
Applications such as continuous data replication, Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME), Cisco MDS Data Mobility Manager (DMM), and network-based volume management address customer concerns related to storage provisioning, security, data migration and replication, backup and recovery, storage utilization, and increasing storage costs.
Cisco Fabric Manager
Complete, unified management capabilities are available for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Cisco device and fabric management software, combined with leading SAN management and storage resource management software, provides all features needed to rapidly install, configure, manage, and troubleshoot the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. |
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How can Sirius help you with your data center needs?
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• Data Center and Network Assessments
• Cisco Data Center Architecture Workshops
• Server Virtualization and Consolidation Assessment
• Security Assessments
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