Consolidate Your SAN Data Center Infrastructure
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family consolidation solutions can help you reduce business risk, improve agility, and reduce costs.
Multiprotocol storage networking lowers business risk and costs with multiple connectivity options. These include:
These options are all supported within the same modular Cisco MDS 9500 chassis.
Scalability and Flexibility
Enterprise-class storage connectivity provides scalability of up to 528 ports in a single Cisco MDS Multilayer Director 9513 chassis. ANSI T11-based Virtual SANs (VSANs) let you separate a large physical fabric into multiple, smaller virtual fabrics each with their own set of fabric services using hardware-based data and control plane isolation.
Extending Network Service
Services-oriented SANs extend any network service to any device regardless of protocol, speed, vendor, or location. These network services include:
Simplifying Operations
Cisco NX-OS Software and Cisco Fabric Manager provide operational simplicity, transparent interoperability, and feature consistency across the Cisco MDS 9000, Cisco Nexus 7000, Cisco Nexus 5000, and Cisco Nexus 1000V product series.
