Cisco MDS 9000 Family Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Module - Switch - managed - 32 x 8Gb Fibre Channel SFP+ - plug-in module - refurbished
- Cisco FlexSpeed technology
- Arbitrated local switching
- Integrated hardware-based VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR)
- Resilient high-performance ISLs
- Comprehensive security framework
- Sophisticated diagnostics
- Investment protection
- Scalable consolidated SAN deployment
For the most demanding storage networking environments, the 8-Gbps advanced Fiber Channel switching module delivers uncompromising performance. The 8-Gbps advanced switching module delivers fullduplex aggregate performance of 512 Gbps, making this module well suited for attachment of high-performance 8-Gbps storage subsystems or either 8- or 10-Gbps Inter-Switch Links (ISLs).
This 8-Gbps advanced module enables you to consolidate SAN deployments with fewer hardware components, consolidate workloads from hundreds of virtual machines with unparalleled performance, and scale with incremental updates as your SAN grows while protecting your existing investment. Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module also provides Cisco VMpath technology, which enables advanced virtual machine-aware SAN provisioning and monitoring for virtualized data centers. With Cisco VMpath, you can monitor, manage, and control SAN resource allocation and performance on a per-virtual machine basis and map out paths all the way from the server to storage, enabling tracking of mission-critical workloads end-to-end.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module is hot-swappable and compatible with 10-Gbps interfaces, and it supports hot-swappable Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) transceivers. Each port supports 500 buffer credits for exceptional extensibility without requiring additional licensing.
The 8-Gbps advanced Fiber Channel switching module continues to provide previously available features such as - predictable performance and high availability, advanced traffic management capabilities, integrated VSANs and IVR, resilient high-performance ISLs, comprehensive security frameworks, fault detection and isolation of errored packets, and sophisticated diagnostics.
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Cisco FlexSpeed technology
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module is equipped with Cisco FlexSpeed technology, which enables ports on the Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module to be configured as 8-Gbps Fiber Channel interfaces. With integrated Cisco TrustSec encryption, the 10-Gbps links provide secure, high-performance native Fiber Channel SAN extension.
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Arbitrated local switching
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module provides line-rate switching across all the ports on the same module without performance degradation or increased latency for traffic exchanged with other modules in the chassis.
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Integrated hardware-based VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR)
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module enables deployment of large-scale consolidated SANs while maintaining security and isolation between applications. Integration into port-level hardware allows any port or any virtual machine in a system or fabric to be partitioned into any VSAN. Integrated hardware-based IVR provides line-rate routing between any ports in a system or fabric without the need for external routing appliances.
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Resilient high-performance ISLs
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module supports high-performance ISLs. Advanced Fiber Channel switching module also offers PortChannel technology, with up to 16 links spanning any port on any module within a chassis grouped into a logical link for added scalability and resilience.
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Comprehensive security framework
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module supports RADIUS and TACACS+, Fiber Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), Secure FTP (SFTP), Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, and Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3) implementing Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), VSANs, hardware-enforced zoning, ACLs, and per-VSAN role-based access control (RBAC).
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Sophisticated diagnostics
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module provides intelligent diagnostics, protocol decoding, and network analysis tools as well as integrated call home capability for added reliability, faster problem resolution, and reduced service costs.
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Scalable consolidated SAN deployment
With the exponential growth of data in business environment, organizations need large-scale SAN deployments. To fulfill these scalability requirements, Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Advanced Fiber Channel Switching Module offers high per-slot performance, unparalleled functionality with VSANs for consolidating individual physical SAN islands while maintaining logical delineations, and IVR for sharing resources across VSANs. These capabilities enable the consolidation of an organization's data assets into fewer, larger, and more manageable SANs.
