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Intelligent storage networking for IBM System Storage IT
simplification and business continuity solutions
Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM System Storage
High performance and manageability
for SANs
The Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM®
System Storage™ provides 1, 2, 4,
8 and 10 Gbps Fibre Channel switch
connectivity and intelligent network
services to help improve the security,
performance and manageability
required to consolidate geographically
dispersed storage devices into a large
enterprise SAN.
The Cisco MDS
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Each Supervisor-2 Module provides the 12-, 24- and 48-port 4 Gbps switching high-performance servers and storage necessary crossbar bandwidth to modules: Configuring the switch for the subsystems as well as to connect to deliver full system performance in the application environment other switches using ISL connections. Cisco MDS 9509 director with up to The 12-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel seven Fibre Channel switching mod- Switching Module delivers high The 48-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel ules. Loss o
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The 48-port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel hot-swappable X2 form-factor plug- automatically restart failed processes Switching Module delivers an ideal gable, SC type transceivers. The mod- and complete synchronization between balance of performance and scalability. ule is well suited for ISL links between the active and standby Supervisor Its 48 autosensing 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbps data centers across metro optical Modules to help support stateful failover ports deliver up to 96 Gbps of full- networks. without
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● physical SAN fabric or switch. Each Simplified storage network management The SAN Extension over IP Package VSAN can be zoned as a typical SAN, The Cisco MDS 9509 provides three for IP Services and Multiservice maintaining its own fabric services for principal modes of management: the 18/4 Module features add FCIP added scalability and resilience. VSANs Cisco MDS 9000 family command-line support. SAN Extension over IP allow the cost of SAN infrastructure to interface (CLI), Cisco Fabric Manager
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improve management with quality of Switch Cascading and Fabric Binding. Capabilities to help reduce TCO service (QoS) and helps improve secu- This feature helps provide secure VSAN capability enables more efficient rity with Inter-VSAN Routing for Fibre mainframe and open-system SAN SAN utilization by creating multiple iso- Channel, and enhanced network secu- infrastructure consolidation. lated environments within a single SAN rity capabilities including switch-switch fabric. Each VSAN can be zo
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1 Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM System Storage at a glance IBM product numbers 2054-E07—Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM System Storage includes dual Supervisor-2 cards, dual 3000W AC power supplies. All models include Cisco SAN-OS 3.2 firmware with Cisco Fabric Manager, VSAN and PortChannel capabilities. Features: 8-port IP Services Module SAN Extension over IP for 8-port IP Services Module Storage Services Module 4-port 10 Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module (no optics) 12-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel Switching M
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1 Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM System Storage at a glance Base warranty One year, 24x7, same day, on-site IBM warranty. 3 Supported systems IBM Power Systems™ servers, IBM System p® and selected IBM RS/6000® servers; IBM System x™ and selected IBM Netfinity® servers; other Intel® processor-based servers running the Linux®, Microsoft® Windows NT® or Microsoft Windows® 2000 operating systems; selected Sun™ and HP servers; IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server® (ESS); IBM System Storage DS8000™ Disk
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