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Business Value |
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High value switch features “out of the box” plus an attractive entry level price make this the perfect switch for entry level SANs as well as large scale Enterprise core-edge switch deployments. |
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Features and Benefits |
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- Value: Enterprise features at an affordable entry-level price: Automating the backup process simplifies your data protection processes. Implementing unattended daily backup is especially good for businesses with limited IT resources.
- Flexibility: Exceptional performance and scalability: Employs high speed technology for storage networking, from 8 to 24 ports auto-sense lower bandwidth components for greater flexibility and investment protection (4, 2, or 1Gbps) and total platform bandwidth performance of 288Gbps full duplex.
- High availability: Designed for environments where downtime is not an option. Hot-pluggable design supports non-disruptive upgrades, VSANs (Virtual Storage Area Networks) for fault isolation, redundant power supply option and PortChannels for ISL resiliency.
- Flexible licensing: Dynamic and growing businesses require the flexibility to manage their investment wisely. Designed to scale as business needs dictate with the option of purchasing an 8-port, 16-port or 24-port model up front plus an8-port activation upgrade license to “pay as you grow”.
- Traffic management: Simplifies deployment while optimizing core edge fabrics with support for virtual output queuing, flexible buffer credit allocation, PortChannels, Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF), and more.
- VSAN support: Support for up to 16 VSANs per switch that can be zoned as its own fabric enables efficiency, lower cost through shared usage, the flexibility of independent configuration control, and increased security through isolation of devices on the same physical SAN.
- Long distance support: Individual ports can be configured with short-, medium-, or long-wavelength SFP optics for connectivity of up to 10 kilometers. Coarse Wave Division Multiplexer solutions with very long wave optic options can be used to extend connectivity up to 100 kilometers.
- Ease of Use: Simple and consistent with support by the Cisco MDS 9000 family management tools including a CLI, Cisco Fabric Manager and standards-based API supporting SNMP and SMI-S. Also supported by HP unified server and storage management tools including HP Onboard Administrator, HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Storage Essentials.
- Comprehensive security: Offers an extensive security framework to protect highly sensitive data crossing today’s enterprise networks.
- Advanced diagnostics and troubleshooting tools: Integrates the industry’s most advanced analysis and debugging tools for proactive diagnostics, verification of connectivity and route latency, and capturing and analyzing traffic.
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