IBM Cisco MDS 9506 manual

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    Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage Intelligent storage networking for IBM System Storage infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions Highlights ■ 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 Chann[...]

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    The 24-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel switching module is designed for high performance storage networking applications. T wenty-four autosensing 1, 2 and 4 Gbps ports are designed deliver sustained bandwidth requir ed to meet the performance requir ements of enterprise-class storage and servers. Port bandwidth reservation enables 1, 2 or 4 Gbps switchi[...]

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    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 requir ements. This module is designed to provide a low-cost means of attach- ing lower performance servers and storage subsystems to the high- performance crossbar [...]

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    Additionally , data plane traffic is secured through VSANs, which ar e designed to segregate traf fic between multiple vir- tual fabrics within the single physical fabric infrastructure, and thr ough hardwar e-enforced zoning, which further segregates traf fic within each VSAN. Advanced security and management The Enterprise Package feature is desi[...]

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    Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage at a glance IBM product numbers 2054-E04—Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage includes dual Supervisor -2 cards, dual 1900 W AC power supplies All models include SAN-OS 3.0 firmware with Fabric Manager , VSAN and PortChannel capabilities FC 2208—8 Port IP Services Module (no optics) FC 2210—SAN Extensio[...]

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    For more information Contact your IBM repr esentative or IBM Business Partner or visit ibm.com /storage/cisco © Copyright IBM Corporation 2007 IBM Systems and T echnology Group 9000 Rita Road T ucson, AZ 85744 Produced in the United States February 2007 All Rights Reserved IBM, the IBM logo, DS4000, DS6000, DS8000, Enterprise Storage Server , FICO[...]