IBM MDS 9509 port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4/44-port 8 Gbps Host Optimized Fibre Channel Switching

The 48-port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel

Switching Module delivers an ideal balance of performance and scalability. Its 48 autosensing 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbps ports deliver up to 96 Gbps of full- duplex bandwidth to meet the perform- ance demands of enterprise-class or highly virtualized servers. Through easy- to-use traffic engineering capabilities, the 48-port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module offers the flexibility to provide predictable high-performance storage and inter-switch connectivity, fully utilizing the available bandwidth.

The 4/44-port 8 Gbps Host-

Optimized Fibre Channel Switching

Module is optimized for host connec- tivity. The module enables storage net- work consolidation with high-density, cost-effective connectivity. Four 8-Gbps ports and 44 4-Gbps ports deliver

96 Gbps of full-duplex bandwidth, sufficient for the majority of today’s standard servers.

4-port 10 Gbps switching module:

Configuring the switch for metro business

continuity

The 4-port 10 Gbps Fibre Channel

Switching Module is built to deliver high-bandwidth links for metro business continuity solutions. The module uses

hot-swappable X2 form-factor plug- gable, SC type transceivers. The mod- ule is well suited for ISL links between data centers across metro optical networks.

Port Bandwidth Reservation, available on all switching modules, enables switching bandwidth to be dedicated to specific ports. This unique feature of the Cisco MDS 9000 family enables great flexibility in bandwidth allocation to support a mix of applications within a single module, including high- performance ISLs. By combining vari- ous switching modules in a single modular chassis, it is possible to design storage networks optimized for cost and performance in a wide range

of application environments. This appli- cation-oriented approach to port deployment can reduce the number of switches and ISLs required in a storage network, in many cases eliminating the need for core-edge network topologies.

A switch built for high availability

The Cisco MDS 9509 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 Module-2 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.

A switch for virtual servers and

applications

Server virtualization means that a SAN must concurrently support thousands of diverse, tiered applications, each with unique performance requirements. These applications and the virtual machines (VMs) they run on are not bounded by physical servers and net- work ports. The Cisco MDS 9000 family provides deterministic hardware per- formance and a rich feature set that allows VMs to have the same SAN attributes as a physical server. On a per-VM basis, the MDS 9000 family NX- OS firmware offers Virtual SAN (VSAN) isolation, quality of service (QoS) poli- cies, access control, performance mon- itoring, and data protection to enable scalability and mobility of VMs.

A switch for virtual SANs

Ideal for efficient, secure SAN consoli- dation, ANSI T11 compliant VSANs allow more efficient storage network uti- lization by creating hardware-based iso- lated environments within a single