IBM Cisco MDS 9506 manual Switch designed for high availability, Basis. The IP Storage Services

and enterprise-class storage and servers. Port bandwidth reservation enables 1, 2 or 4 Gbps switching band- width to be flexibly dedicated to ports to meet a wide range of application requirements. This module is designed to provide a low-cost means of attach- ing lower performance servers and storage subsystems to the high- performance crossbar switch fabric without requiring ISLs.

4-port switching module: Configuring the

switch for metro business continuity

The 4-port 10 Gbps Fibre Channel

switching module is designed to deliver high bandwidth links for metro business continuity solutions. The mod- ule uses hot-swappable X2 form-factor pluggable, SC type transceivers. The module is well suited for ISL links between data centers across metro optical networks.

A switch designed for high availability

The Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System

Storage combines support for non-

disruptive software upgrades, stateful

process restart/failover and redundancy of active hardware components to sup- port director-class availability. The Supervisor-2 Module has the ability to automatically restart failed processes and complete synchronization between the active and standby Supervisor Modules to help support stateful failover without disruption to traffic.

Simplified storage network management

The Cisco MDS 9506 supports three principal modes of management: the Cisco MDS 9000 Family command-line interface (CLI), Cisco Fabric Manager and integration with third-party storage management tools. The Cisco MDS 9506 presents the user with a consis- tent, logical CLI. Adhering to the syntax of the widely known Cisco IOS® CLI, the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI has broad functionality.

Multiprotocol support and traffic

management features

IP and Multiprotocol Storage Services

Module features offer Gigabit Ethernet

ports for iSCSI or FCIP connectivity,

software configurable on a port-by-port

basis. The IP Storage Services

Module feature provides eight iSCSI

ports. Multiprotocol Services

Module feature offers two Gigabit

Ethernet iSCSI ports and fourteen

2 Gbps Fibre Channel ports. The SAN

Extension over IP Package for IP

Services Modules and Multiprotocol Services Module features add Fibre Channel over IP support. SAN Extension over IP Package helps improve performance with FCIP Compression, Write Acceleration and Tape Acceleration and helps improve security with Inter-VSAN Routing for FCIP.

Security for large enterprise SANs

Because storage networks require security, the Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage is designed to provide extensive security measures at possible points of attack to help pre- vent unauthorized management access and snooping.