Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node Scheda Tecnica

 

 

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Data Sheet 

Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node 

Product Overview 

Many IT departments have consolidated their data centers and SANs, achieving great efficiencies along the way. 

Large enterprises with consolidated SANs have hundreds or thousands of servers running business applications 

interconnecting through a common network fabric, making the network fabric an ideal nexus from which to deploy 

solutions such as SAN extension, acceleration, and encryption of data. The Cisco

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 MDS 9000 16-Port Storage 

Services Node provides a high-performance, flexible, unified platform for deploying enterprise-class disaster 

recovery, business continuance, and intelligent fabric applications (Figure 1). 

Figure 1.    Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node 

 

The Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node hosts four independent service engines, which can each be 

individually and incrementally enabled to scale as business requirements change, or be configured to run separate 

applications. Based on the single service engine in the Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module, this  

four-to-one consolidation delivers dramatic hardware savings and frees valuable slots in the Cisco MDS 9500 

Series Multilayer Directors chassis. 

The Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node integrates transparently into the Cisco MDS 9500 Series 

Multilayer Directors and the Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch. Each of the four service engines 

supports 4 Gigabit Ethernet IP storage services ports, for a total of 16 ports of Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) 

connectivity. Traffic can be switched between an IP port and any Fibre Channel port on a Cisco MDS 9000 Family 

switch. The Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node supports the full range of services available on other 

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fibre Channel switching modules, including virtual SANs (VSANs), security, and traffic 

management. 

The Cisco MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node uses Cisco expertise and knowledge of IP networks to 

deliver outstanding SAN extension performance, reducing latency for disk and tape with FCIP acceleration 

features, including FCIP write acceleration and FCIP tape write and read acceleration. Hardware-based encryption 

helps secure sensitive traffic with IP Security (IPsec), and hardware-based compression dramatically enhances 

performance for both high- and low-speed links, enabling immediate cost savings in expensive WAN infrastructure. 

Multiple FCIP interfaces within a single engine or across service engines can be grouped into a PortChannel of up 

to 16 links for high availability and increased aggregate throughput. FCIP PortChannels can also be enabled for 

FCIP tape read and write acceleration by running the optional Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator (IOA) Package on 

a service engine anywhere in the fabric.