The Cisco MDS 9124 Fabric Switch is a 4Gbps Fibre Channel switch which supports up to 24-ports customers can may use to deploy high performance storage area networks in their enterprise. The Cisco MDS 9124 Fabric Switch supports VSAN, an industry standard for fabric virtualization enabling more efficient network use by creating hardware-based isolated environments within a single physical SAN fabric or switch. In addition, advanced traffic management features such as PortChannels, virtual output queuing, and Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) simplify deployment while optimizing the fabric. Management is simplified with a broad range of integrated tools that range from a consistent Cisco MDS 9000 family Command Line Interface (CLI) to Cisco Fabric Manager and an industry-standard API that includes support for SNMP and SMI-S for integration with third-party and user-developed tools.
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Value: Enterprise features at an affordable entry level price: The Cisco MDS 9124 Fabric Switch provides on demand “pay as you grow” ports starting with 8 and growing to 24 with 8 port upgrades. There are no hidden charges for ISL trunking, extended distance support, security, realtime performance and event monitoring and virtual SANs
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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
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High availability: Designed for environments where downtime is not an option. Hot-pluggable design supports non-disruptive upgrades, VSANs for fault isolation, redundant power supply option and PortChannels for ISL resiliency
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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 an 8-port activation upgrade license to “pay as you grow”
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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
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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
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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
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Ease of Use: Simplicity and broad range of management options: Simple and consistent with support by the Cisco MDS 9000 family management tools including a CLI, Cisco Fabric Manager and a standards-based API supporting SNMP and SMI-S. Also supported by HP unified server and storage management tools including HP Onboard Administrator, HP SIM, and HP Storage Essentials
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Comprehensive security: Offers an extensive security framework to protect highly sensitive data crossing today’s enterprise networks
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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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