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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
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Configuring Intelligent Storage Services
The Storage Services Module (SSM) supports Intelligent Storage Services on Cisco MDS 9000 Family
switches running Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.0(2b) or later software. Intelligent Storage Services
support in Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.0(2b) includes the following:
•Fibre Channel write acceleration
•SCSI flow statistics
Intelligent Storage Services support in Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.1(1) include the following:
•SANTap
•Network-Accelerated Serverless Backup (NASB)
•Third-party application support
This chapter includes the following sections:
•Intelligent Storage Services, page 23-1
•SCSI Flow Services, page 23-3
•Fibre Channel Write Acceleration, page 23-4
•SCSI Flow Statistics, page 23-5
•SANTap, page 23-7
•NASB, page 23-11
Intelligent Storage Services
All Intelligent Storage Services must be enabled on an SSM before the service can be configured. For
switches running Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.1(1a) or later software, these services are enabled for
all ports on the SSM, or provisioned in groups of four ports. Switches running earlier releases that
support intelligent storage services enable a service across all ports.
Note The four port groups are contiguous, requiring you to configure ports 1 through 4, 5 through 8, and so on.