Cisco Cisco Fabric Manager Release 5.0 White Paper
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Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Deployment Guide
OL-21765-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.x
Chapter 1 Cisco Fabric Manager Server Federation Overview
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Moving Fabrics
Terminology
The following table defines some of the common acronyms used in the federated server environment:
Features and Capabilities
Fabric Manager Server clustering has the following features and capabilities:
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Manage storage networking across all Cisco SAN and unified fabrics.
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Scalable performance through server federation for a multiple and large fabrics with many
end-devices across different geographic data centers.
end-devices across different geographic data centers.
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Visibility of adjacent Ethernet networks and end-devices.
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Enables I/O convergence (FCoE).
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Real-time monitoring of SAN health status and network events.
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Visibility into performance, utilization, topology, and configuration details for more efficient
planning and provisioning.
planning and provisioning.
Fabric Manager Server License provides the following functionalities with out installing any additional
software:
software:
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Multiple Fabric Management
Acronym Definition
FM
Fabric Manager.
FMS
Fabric Manager Server.
PM
Performance Manager.
SAN
Storage Area Network.