Extend SAN Service to Any Device

Service-Oriented SANs

Highly Available, Scalable, Reliable

Learn how service-oriented SANs help unify data center infrastructures. (5:08 min.)

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Storage network managers have long been challenged to deliver services such as encryption, data migration, compression, and acceleration. The best way to optimize data center resources is to deploy high-performance storage network services using Cisco MDS 9000 products as the platform.

Benefits of MDS 9000 Services-Oriented SANs

• Services are integrated into the SAN fabric without wasted ports, recabling, SAN reconfigurations, or deployment disruption.
• Deployment times are dramatically reduced because performance is added by adding service engines.
• Automatic load balancing and traffic redirect failover help ensure high availability.
• Consolidating important tasks into the fabric supports transparent extension of any SAN service to any device.

These services are all provided over your MDS network.

Hardware

• MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node
• MDS 9000 18/4 Multiservice Module
• MDS 9222i Multiservice Switch

Software

• Storage Media Encryption
• Data Mobility Manager
• IO Accelerator
• SAN Extension
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery