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Cisco Systems MDS 9000 manual

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  • Page 1

    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 1 of 11 White P aper Bac kup and R eco very S olutions with the MDS 90 0 0 F amily Purpose The purpose of this whitepaper is to discuss backup and recovery architectures and solutions and outline the a[...]

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 2 of 11 conjunction with backing up to tape. Replication technologies also provide multiple options suitable for varying application requirements. Although replication can help you to recover from a ca[...]

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 3 of 11 Current implementations of backup processes are manual, labor intensive, and inundated with problems caused by human errors. Backups that fail can often go undetected leading to potential data [...]

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 4 of 11 Figure 2 Server -Less Bac kup Server -less (or server -free) backup involved the task of moving backup data from a disk to a tape without the data traversing the application server itself. In s[...]

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 5 of 11 Figure 3 Bac kup Industry and Pr oduct Overview Many software vendors produce centralized backup software such as V eritas Netbackup, V eritas BackupExec, Legato Networker , and Computer Associ[...]

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 6 of 11 Data A vailability A storage network infrastructure provides multiple paths to storage subsystems, including disks and tapes, for both high availability and scalability . Customers can implemen[...]

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 7 of 11 Remote D ata Mirr oring/D ata Replication Remote data mirroring, or remote copy , is the most commonly used mechanism for fast application and data recovery . This inherently implies that a mir[...]

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 8 of 11 The MDS 9000 Family consists of the MDS 9500 Series of Multilayer Directors and the MDS 9216 Multilayer fabric switch. The MDS 9000 Family products are modular systems that are optimized for hi[...]

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 9 of 11 VSANs apply proven technologies in Ethernet networking to the performance and isolation requirements of Fibre Channel storage networks to deliver best-in-class solutions. Zoning is very useful [...]

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    Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 10 of 11 application requirements dictate the solutions that are deployed, FCIP is suitable for a large majority of remote data mirroring applications. FCIP is ideal for wide area connectivity between [...]

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