HP MDS 9000 Family Multiprotocol Services Module A7559A Leaflet

Integral switch component providing 2 ports of multiprotocol connectivity for 1Gb Ethernet to 2/1-
Gb Fibre Channel ports allowing IP connections using FCIP and iSCSI.

The Cisco MDS 9000 Family Multiprotocol Services Module supports hardware-based FCIP
compression to maximize the effective WAN bandwidth of SAN extension solutions. The Cisco
Multiprotocol Services Module achieves up to a 30:1 compression ratio, with typical ratios of 2:1
over a wide variety of data sources.

The Cisco Multiprotocol Services module also supports FCIP Write Acceleration, a feature that
can significantly improve application performance when storage traffic is extended across
distance. When FCIP Write Acceleration is enabled, WAN throughput is optimized by reducing the
latency of command acknowledgements. Similarly, the Cisco Multiprotocol Services module
supports FCIP Tape Acceleration, which significantly improves throughput over WAN links for
remote tape backup operations.

Together, FCIP Compression, FCIP Write Acceleration, and FCIP Tape Acceleration enable
optimal performance of business continuance services.

Many IT managers have been hesitant to extend SAN access beyond their mission-critical
applications to midrange data center applications because of the complexity and cost involved in
upgrading large numbers of midrange servers to Fibre Channel. The Cisco MDS 9000 Family
Multiprotocol Services Module addresses these limitations by enabling IT organizations to extend
their storage networks using cost-effective Ethernet infrastructure. All the benefits of SAN,
including increased storage utilization, centralized backups, easier addition of incremental storage
capacity, management simplification, and reduced overall total cost of ownership (TCO), can be
extended to a new range of applications. Because the Cisco Multiprotocol Services Module is an
integral component of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family, Ethernet attached servers will enjoy the same
SAN scalability, availability, manageability, and intelligent services as those servers connected
using Fibre Channel, while maintaining the cost and ease-of-use benefits of Ethernet and IP.

Addressing the need for airtight security in storage networks, the Cisco MDS 9000 Multiprotocol
Services Module offers an extensive security framework to protect highly sensitive data crossing
today's enterprise networks. The Cisco Multiprotocol Services Module employs intelligent packet
inspection at the port level, including the application of ACLs for hardware enforcement of zones,
VSANs, and advanced Port Security features.
Extended zoning capabilities are enabled to ensure that LUNs are accessible only by specific
hosts (LUN zoning), to limit SCSI read command for a certain zone (read-only zoning), and to
restrict broadcasts to only the selected zones (broadcast zones). VSANs are used to achieve
higher security and greater stability by providing complete isolation among devices that are
connected to the same physical SAN. In addition, Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)
provides switch-switch and host switch Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol (DH-CHAP) authentication supporting RADIUS or TACACS+, to ensure that only
authorized devices access protected storage networks. Finally, for both FCIP and iSCSI
deployments, the comprehensive IPsec protocol suite delivers secure authentication, data
integrity, and hardware-based encryption.

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