Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap Scheda Tecnica
Data Sheet
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Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap for EMC RecoverPoint Benefits
Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap provides the following benefits:
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Transparent deployment of the data protection appliance
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Helps ensure data consistency
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No disruption of the primary I/O operations from the server to the storage array
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Deployment flexibility and investment protection
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Unlimited scalability and no performance bottlenecks
EMC RecoverPoint provides the following benefits:
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Local site operational recovery
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Any-point-in-time recovery
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Integrated WAN compression
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Asynchronous and dynamic synchronous replication
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Remote-site disaster recovery
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Support for heterogeneous storage
By splitting the traffic in the fabric as opposed to disrupting the traffic at either the host or the storage subsystem,
Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap provides unique scalability and performance enhancements for protecting VMware
infrastructure environments.
Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap provides the following benefits in VMware operating environments:
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Hardware offload of traffic-split operation
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Support for physical Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) and Raw Device Mapping (RDM) data volume
replication
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Support for guest OS boot volume replication (VMFS and RDM)
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Support for VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS), VMotion, and Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
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Support for P2V and V2V replication
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Support for up to 16 replicated virtual machines per VMware ESX Server
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Support for up to 1000 replicated volumes
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More I/O operations per second (IOPS) than host-based or array-based traffic splitting
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Multivendor disk array and multivendor OS support
VMware Site Recovery Manager integrates with EMC RecoverPoint to provide automated disaster recovery of virtual
environments. With Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap used in this environment to provide a consistent copy of the primary
I/O to the EMC RecoverPoint replication operation, this approach allows protected and replicated volumes to reside
on any storage array on the EMC RecoverPoint Support Matrix (EMC or third party; Figure 3).