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Data Sheet
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Services Module
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The Cisco
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MDS 9000 Family Storage Services Module incorporates all the capabilities of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 32-Port 2-Gbps Fibre
Channel Switching Module, plus a variety of innovative storage services. The Storage Services Module is available in a 32-port configuration
and accepts the Cisco 2-Gbps Fibre Channel Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) optical modules.
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Services Module (Figure 1) includes the following features:
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Fibre Channel switching
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Fibre Channel Write Acceleration (FC-WA) and Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) flow-statistics monitoring
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Network-Accelerated Serverless Backup with standards-based SCSI-2 EXTENDED COPY command.
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Network-Assisted Storage Applications with the SANTap protocol
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Network-Hosted Storage Applications with the Fabric Application Interface Standard (FAIS)-based Intelligent Storage Application Programmatic
Interface (ISAPI)
Figure 1. Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Services Module
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Fibre Channel Switching
Includes 32 ports of Fibre Channel switching so no compromise between port density and I/O performance is necessary.
Fibre Channel Write Acceleration
Designed for synchronous data replication, FC-WA reduces the effective latency between data centers to dramatically enhance the performance
and/or increase the distance of synchronous data-replication deployments. Additionally, with the embedded SCSI flow services, SCSI flows are
monitored for statistics gathering.