IBM MDS 9506 manual Advanced security and management, Storage Network Applications

Advanced security and management

The Enterprise Package feature is designed to provide advanced security and management capabilities. The package helps improve management with Quality of Service (QoS) and helps improve security with Inter-VSAN Routing for Fibre Channel, and enhanced network security capabilities including Switch-Switch and Host Authentication.

The Fabric Manager Server Package feature is designed to extend Cisco Fabric Manager by providing historical performance data collection, centralized management services and support for advanced application integration. This feature helps simplify management of large enterprise SAN infrastructures. The package provides Fibre Channel statistics monitoring, performance thresholds, reporting, graphing and per­ formance database capabilities which can helps simplify management of large enterprise, metro and global SAN infrastructures.

The Mainframe Package feature is designed to enable mainframe storage network applications including

IBM FICON® protocol; FICON Control Unit Port (CUP); FICON and FCP inter­ mixing; FICON Switch Cascading and Fabric Binding. This feature helps pro­ vide secure mainframe and open sys­ tem SAN infrastructure consolidation.

Storage Network Applications

The Storage Services Module, based upon the 32-port 2 Gbps Switching Module, is a highly specialized feature which provides intelligent storage serv­ ices in addition to 1 and 2 Gbps Fibre Channel switching. When combined with the Storage Services Enabler

Package, the module is designed to enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop intelligent fabric appli­ cations. IBM support for these ISV applications is limited to IBM System Storage Proven™ Solutions. For the most current IBM System Storage Proven application information, visit: ibm.com/storage/proven

Capabilities to help reduce TCO

VSAN capability is designed to allow more efficient SAN utilization by creat­ ing multiple isolated environments within a single SAN fabric. Each VSAN maintains its own fabric services for added scalability and resilience. VSANs allow the cost of the SAN infrastructure to be shared among more users, while helping to provide segregation and security of traffic and retaining inde­ pendent control of configurations on a VSAN-by-VSAN basis.

The second generation 4 Gbps Fibre Channel Modules, with twenty-four and forty-eight ports, compared to the prior generation 2 Gbps sixteen and thirty port features, offer up to 33 percent reduced power and cooling per port. The second generation Multiservices Module, with twenty-two ports com­ pared to the prior generation feature with sixteen ports, offers up to

27 percent reduced power and cooling per port.