Extend SAN Service to Any Device
Service-Oriented SANs
Highly Available, Scalable, Reliable
Learn how service-oriented SANs help unify data center infrastructures. (5:08 min.)
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Storage network managers have long been challenged to deliver services such as encryption, data migration, compression, and acceleration. The best way to optimize data center resources is to deploy high-performance storage network services using Cisco MDS 9000 products as the platform.
Benefits of MDS 9000 Services-Oriented SANs
- Services are integrated into the SAN fabric without wasted ports, recabling, SAN reconfigurations, or deployment disruption.
- Deployment times are dramatically reduced because performance is added by adding service engines.
- Automatic load balancing and traffic redirect failover help ensure high availability.
- Consolidating important tasks into the fabric supports transparent extension of any SAN service to any device.
These services are all provided over your MDS network.
Hardware
- MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node
- MDS 9000 18/4 Multiservice Module
- MDS 9222i Multiservice Switch
Software
- Storage Media Encryption
- Data Mobility Manager
- IO Accelerator
- SAN Extension
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
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