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Cisco and EMC believes that the optimal SAN storage virtualization approach should be an extension of today’s SAN technology—making today’s SANs smarter and more functional. This whitepaper describes how EMC’s Invista product builds on Cisco’s intelligent SAN devices by adding virtualization software that creates a logical storage abstraction. The result is a new category of storage virtualization that scales cost-effectively, offers end-to-end management, interoperates with multiple vendors’ offerings, and can coexist with intelligence in the storage array. |
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Cisco WAFS offers enterprises and organizations with multiple branch offices the benefits of centralized storage with local file services. It helps enable companies to consolidate servers and storage and centralize backup and disaster recovery processes, while providing fast, near-LAN file access across the WAN. This white paper explains how. |
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This paper provides an overview of the combination of factors defining high-availability IP storage area networks. It describes methodologies that assist users in architecting and deploying an appropriate level of availability across the application infrastructure. It also describes how Cisco MDS 9000 family of solutions assist organizations of any size in achieving application high-availability computing goals. |
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This design guide focuses on the aspects of extending the SAN utilizing the iSCSI protocol within the Cisco MDS 9000 IP Services switching module. Design considerations and typical implementations are covered in order to guide storage managers on how to implement an iSCSI solution in the enterprise with Cisco's MDS 9000 IP Services switching module. |
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This paper provides an overview of the combination of factors defining high-availability IP storage area networks. It describes methodologies that assist users in architecting and deploying an appropriate level of availability across the application infrastructure. It also describes how Cisco MDS 9000 family of solutions assist organizations of any size in achieving application high-availability computing goals. |
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Because most of the SAN protocols were originally designed to function within a campus or, at most, within a metropolitan area, additional methods of transport are required to allow SANs to be truly geographically dispersed. This paper explains the various options for SAN extension. |
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This paper provides a thorough overview of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family IPS Module along with design guidance and recommendations on implementing the IPS Module into a storage environment. |
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Enterprise data centers contain assets, applications, and data that are often the target of electronic attacks. Endpoints such as data center servers are important objectives of malicious attacks and must be protected. Attacks against server farms can result in lost business for e-commerce and business-to-business applications and theft of confidential or proprietary information. This white paper discusses how both LANs and storage area networks (SANs) need to be secured to reduce the likelihood of these occurrences, and how Cisco is delivering these levels of security. |
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A Meta Group White Paper outlining a recommended approach for IT organizations to plan, implement, measure, and improve high-availability systems as a continuous process.
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This whitepaper shows how the Cisco Business Ready Data Center helps enterprises protect, optimize, and grow their business with an intelligent storage network architecture that help align data center resources with business priorities.
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The purpose of this whitepaper is to discuss backup and recovery architectures and solutions and outline the applicable features of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches.
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This whitepaper shows how HP’s experience in storage and information lifecycle management, broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions, is combined with the Cisco Systems Business Ready Data Center to deliver best-in-class business continuity and availability solutions.
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This document discusses important business continuance challenges, Cisco Systems and EMC offerings to meet them, and the real-world solutions that can you can implement using Cisco and EMC products.
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An integrated, multilevel SAN performance-analysis
solution is available for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. This nonintrusive,
nondisruptive solution uses Cisco MDS performance management
features and provides capabilities not available in other SAN
switches and third-party software products. |
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The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer
Directors and Fabric Switches provide a complete set of intelligent
storage services that include Fibre Channel Write Acceleration
(FC-WA), which can dramatically improve the number of SCSI I/O
operations per second over long-distance in a Fibre Channel-based
SAN. |
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(PDF - 384 KB)
Demand
for storage capacity is growing rapidly. Keeping up with demand
requires solutions that allow you to work smarter, enable you
to scale easily and economically and manage more efficiently,
and provide you with the peace of mind that comes with reliable
business continuance operations. Cisco Systems offers a comprehensive
product portfolio that lets you simply and cost-effectively
deploy storage networking solutions. |
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The purpose of this white paper is to provide an overview of VSAN and zoning features within the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer storage switches and their practical use within storage networking environments. |
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This paper investigates the potential problems associated with Fibre Channel and the single physical fabric - single fault domain model and the inability to adequately isolate against local and remote network events and failures. The solution to SAN fabric scalability and conquering the impacts of a single fault domain is provided in Cisco's solution to building Fibre Channel SANs using the logical fabric model of VSANs with connectivity with resiliency enhancement technologies including inter-VSAN routing and FCIP. In addition, other methods of achieving SAN internetworking are discussed including iFCP, its mechanisms and its inherent limitations. |
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This paper addresses one of the most difficult challenges within any IT organization, the development and execution of a data storage infrastructure strategy. Cisco's MDS 9000 Family product line is an enabler for the Cisco Multilayer Storage Networking strategy. The Cisco Multilayer Storage Network enables new storage networking solutions targeted at reducing infrastructure costs, increasing storage availability, and providing a distributed deployment platform for next generation network-based storage services. |
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The purpose of this whitepaper is to discuss backup and recovery architectures and solutions
and outline the applicable features of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors
and Fabric Switches.
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This whitepaper highlights the advanced security features present within the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer storage switches, and provides best practice information on designing and implementing a secure Storage Area Network (SAN), making use of the advanced security features within the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. |
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