Extend SAN Service to Any Device

Service-Oriented SANs

Highly Available, Scalable, Reliable

Learn how service-oriented SANs help unify data center infrastructures. (5:08 min.)

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Storage network managers have long been challenged by how best to deliver and optimize services such as encryption, data migration, compression, and acceleration in storage environments. The best way to optimize data center resources is to deploy high-performance storage network services in the network, using Cisco MDS 9000 products as the platform.

Benefits

• Services are integrated transparently in the SAN Fabric without wasted ports, recabling, SAN reconfigurations, or deployment disruption.
• Deployment times are dramatically reduced, because you add performance simply by adding service engines.
• Automatic load balancing and traffic redirect failover help ensure high availability.
• Transparent extension of any SAN service to any device is enabled by consolidating key tasks into the fabric.

These services are achieved through a combination of devices and applications.

Hardware

• MDS 9000 16-Port Storage Services Node
• MDS 9000 18/4 Multiservice Module
• MDS 9222i MultiService Switch

Software

• Storage Media Encryption
• Data Mobility Manager
• IO Accelerator
• Secure Erase