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Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Services Enabler Package

Package Description

The Cisco

MDS 9000 Storage Services Enabler (SSE) Package provides the underlying infrastructure and

programmatic interface to enable intelligent fabric applications when used with the following second-generation

Cisco MDS 9000 Family services nodes: the Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch (MMS); the Cisco MDS

9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module (MSM); and the first-generation Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Services Module

(SSM). The Cisco MDS 9000 SSE Package enables the following storage applications:

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Network-hosted storage applications: The Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch, MDS 9000 18/4-

Port Multiservice Module, and MDS 9000 Storage Services Module enable network-hosted storage

applications on Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors and MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Switches.

The Cisco MDS 9000 SSE Package enables these devices to host network-hosted storage applications by

enabling the Intelligent Storage Application Programmatic Interface (ISAPI). Partner virtualization applications

for heterogeneous storage such as EMC Invista (

http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h1437-

invista.pdf

) and Incipient iNSP (

http://www.incipient.com/resource/IncipientNSPDataSheet.pdf

) are enabled

by the Cisco MDS 9000 SSE Package.

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Network-assisted storage applications (SANTap): For the Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch,

MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module, and Storage Services Module, the Cisco MDS 9000 SSE Package

enables a services node to run storage applications through the SANTap interface.

The Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap service enables customers to deploy EMC RecoverPoint using SANTap

services to replicate heterogeneous storage without compromising the integrity, availability, and performance

of the I/O operations between the host and the primary storage target. Cisco SANTap provides a reliable copy

of storage write operations, which enables continuous data protection (CDP) and continuous remote

replication (CRR) for mission-critical applications, without the drawbacks associated with deployment of in-

band data-path-based or out-of-band host-based devices. The Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap service integrates

with partner network–assisted storage replication applications for heterogeneous storage such as EMC

RecoverPoint (

http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h2769-emc-recoverpoint-family.pdf

), and

requires the corresponding Cisco MDS 9000 SSE Package to be installed on the services nodes.

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Cisco Secure Erase: For the Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Services Module, the Cisco MDS 9000 SSE Package

enables an effective SAN-based data erasure feature for storage logical unit numbers (LUNs).

The secure erasure of data is required by many government, industry, and corporate privacy and security

laws and regulations worldwide (for example, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, European Data Protection Directive,

and U.S. Department of Defense [DoD] regulations).

Other data erasure tools can be slow and do not always fully erase the data. The Cisco MDS 9000 Family

Secure Erase feature is based on industry-best-practice algorithms (RCMP, Zeroes, DoD522022m,

DoD522022m-s, NIST-800-88, and the Gutmann method) that leave no remnants of the data after the

operation has been completed successfully. By meeting this critical security and regulatory requirement in the

SAN, users can achieve higher performance and significantly shorten the operational time frame, while

lowering cost by using existing infrastructure that requires no host interruption and that has no explicit storage

system dependencies.