IBM Cisco MDS 9506 manual Highlights, IBM System Storage supports

Intelligent storage networking for IBM System Storage infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions

Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage

The Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage offers dual Supervisor-2 Modules with up to 192 Fibre

Channel ports in a 7U enclosure

Highlights

High performance and manageability

for SANs

The Cisco MDS 9506 for

IBM System Storage™ supports

1, 2 and 4 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.

Improved internal bandwidth for higher

scalability

■Provides Fibre Channel throughput of up to 4 Gbps per port and up to 64 Gbps with each PortChannel Inter-Switch Link connection

■Offers scalability from 12 to 192 Fibre Channel ports

■High-availability design with support for non-disruptive firmware upgrades

■Includes Virtual SAN (VSAN) capability for SAN consolidation into virtual SAN islands on a single physical fabric

The Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage utilizes two Supervisor-2 Modules designed for high availability and performance. The Supervisor-2 Module combines an intelligent control module and a high-performance cross- bar switch fabric in a single unit. It uses Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) multi- path routing, which provides intelligence to load balance across a maximum of

■ Offers 10 Gbps ISL ports for	■ Enterprise, SAN Extension over
inter-Data Center links over	IP, Mainframe and Storage
metro optical networks	Services Enabler and Fabric
	Manager Server Packages pro-
■ Offers Gigabit Ethernet IP, GbE	vide added intelligence and
ports for iSCSI or FCIP connec-	value
tivity over global networks

16 equal-cost paths and to dynamically reroute traffic if a switch fails.