Storage network applications, Capabilities to help reduce tco – IBM MDS 9509 User Manual
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improve management with quality of
service (QoS) and helps improve secu-
rity with Inter-VSAN Routing for Fibre
Channel, and enhanced network secu-
rity capabilities including switch-switch
and host authentication.
The Fabric Manager Server Package
extends Cisco Fabric Manager by pro-
viding historical performance data col-
lection, centralized management
services and support for advanced
application integration. The package
provides Fibre Channel statistics
monitoring, performance thresholds,
reporting, graphing and performance
database capabilities that can help sim-
plify management of large-enterprise,
metro and global SAN infrastructures.
The Mainframe Package feature
enables mainframe storage network
applications including FICON® proto-
col; FICON Control Unit Port (CUP);
FICON and FCP intermixing; FICON
Switch Cascading and Fabric Binding.
This feature helps provide secure
mainframe and open-system SAN
infrastructure consolidation.
Storage network applications
The Storage Services Module,
based on the 32-port 2-Gbps
Switching Module, is a highly special-
ized feature that provides intelligent
storage services in addition to 1 and
2 Gbps Fibre Channel switching. When
combined with the Storage Services
Enabler Package, the module enables
independent software vendors
(ISVs) to develop intelligent fabric
applications. IBM support for
these ISV applications is limited to
IBM TotalStorage® Proven™ Solutions.
For the most current IBM TotalStorage
Proven application information, visit:
Capabilities to help reduce TCO
VSAN capability enables more efficient
SAN utilization by creating multiple iso-
lated environments within a single SAN
fabric. Each VSAN can be zoned as a
typical SAN and maintains its own fab-
ric services for added scalability and
resilience. VSANs allow the cost of the
SAN infrastructure to be shared among
more users, as well as help provide
segregation and security of traffic and
retain independent control of configura-
tions on a VSAN-by-VSAN basis.
The second-generation 4 Gbps Fibre
Channel Modules, with 24 and
48 ports, compared to the prior genera-
tion 2 Gbps 16-port and 32-port
features, offer up to 33 percent
reduced power and cooling per port.
The second-generation Multiservice
18/4 Module, with 22 ports, compared
to the prior-generation feature with
16 ports, offers up to 27 percent
reduced power and cooling per port.