Cisco offers one of the broadest data center LAN and SAN switching portfolios in the industry, and continues to invest in FC across the board, to provide high performance and outstanding flexibility to serve diverse data center needs, including the lossless requirements to carry storage traffic (FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NAS) over a simplified infrastructure.
All platforms in the portfolio run on a common operating system - NX-OS. Having a single operating system across every element of the data center network, provides operational and functional consistency with tight integration across the unified fabric significantly simplifying operations and providing a foundation for accelerated innovations.
Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is the single management system for Nexus and MDS product families, delivering simplified operations and programmability.
Line-Rate 16/8/4/2G FC Ports
Start with 12, 24 or full 48 Ports
Add 12 Port increments
PowerOn Auto Provisioning
Quick Configuration Wizard
Same OS and Management across Industry’s broadest SAN Portfolio
Non-disruptive software upgrades
Virtual SANs (VSANs), Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), QOS, PortChannels
VM Management - N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
SAN Scaling – N-Port Virtualization (NPV)
Comprehensive Security
Industry’s most versatile 16G Fabric Switch: The Cisco MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch based on the “switch on a chip” ASIC delivers enterprise class capabilities in an affordable, compact 1RU form factor. The MDS 9148S, with 16 Gbps dedicated bandwidth per port can scale from a default of 12 ports to 48 ports, with on-demand port activation licenses. The “Pay as you Grow” model makes MDS 9148S a flexible and scalable option for departmental or branch SMB SANs. Hot swappable redundant power supplies with integrated fans are offered for high availability. The MDS 9148S is also powered by the same NX-OS that power the entire Cisco DC product portfolio. Cisco MDS 9148S gives customers the enhanced benefits of high performance, pay-as-you-grow flexibility and simplified deployment and management. Versatile enterprise-class storage Switch for the Entry-Level and Departmental SANs
Line-Rate 16/8/4/2G FC Ports
Start with 12, 24 or full 48 Ports
Add 12 Port increments
PowerOn Auto Provisioning
Quick Configuration Wizard
Same OS and Management across Industry’s broadest SAN Portfolio
Non-disruptive software upgrades
Virtual SANs (VSANs), Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), QOS, PortChannels
VM Management - N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
SAN Scaling – N-Port Virtualization (NPV)
Comprehensive Security
Industry’s most versatile 16G Fabric Switch: The Cisco MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch based on the “switch on a chip” ASIC delivers enterprise class capabilities in an affordable, compact 1RU form factor. The MDS 9148S, with 16 Gbps dedicated bandwidth per port can scale from a default of 12 ports to 48 ports, with on-demand port activation licenses. The “Pay as you Grow” model makes MDS 9148S a flexible and scalable option for departmental or branch SMB SANs. Hot swappable redundant power supplies with integrated fans are offered for high availability. The MDS 9148S is also powered by the same NX-OS that power the entire Cisco DC product portfolio. Cisco MDS 9148S gives customers the enhanced benefits of high performance, pay-as-you-grow flexibility and simplified deployment and management. Versatile enterprise-class storage Switch for the Entry-Level and Departmental SANs
Map applications, business units, VM clusters to VSANs
First of all, let’s quickly define “Integrated Networks.” For starters, it is a true system - combining multiple components in such a way to make the sum of its whole better than the sum of its parts. Here, Cisco combines high-function, proven software and high-performance, flexible hardware to meet the many service demands placed on the network.
It is this combination of components -- software, routers, switches, mobility, security and unified communications -- that truly empowers the connected user, organization, and business. As a result, the integrated network provides comprehensive and consistent service delivery and protection across the entire network, simplified operations of the entire networked system, and ready adaptation and innovation within the network itself.
Now, let’s take a look at how these systems drive business benefits within focused high-impact Cisco customer architectures and solutions. First, the architectures.
Automates Switch Setup
Get IP address, Gateway, NTP server…
Download image and configuration file
Eliminates the need for serial cable to manually configure each switch
Ensure configuration consistency
Automates the process of upgrading software images and installing configuration files
End to end visibility
Holistic path view from compute to Storage LUN
Integrated with Vmware vSphere & Heterogeneous Storage Arrays
Ease troubleshooting by mapping path dependencies and workloads across compute, fabric and storage
Host path redundancy
End to End Host to LUN Path redundancy check
Pre-configurable redundancy policies
Identify root cause and potential fix
Reduce the risk of an outage due to failures and human error.
Reduce time to upgrade SAN hardware and software
Health index
Combination switch, module and port health weighted score based on events severity
Tunable health score
Quickly access the health of switches and graph historic changes to the heath score
Line-Rate 16/8/4/2G FC Ports
Start with 12, 24 or full 48 Ports
Add 12 Port increments
PowerOn Auto Provisioning
Quick Configuration Wizard
Same OS and Management across Industry’s broadest SAN Portfolio
Non-disruptive software upgrades
Virtual SANs (VSANs), Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), QOS, PortChannels
VM Management - N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
SAN Scaling – N-Port Virtualization (NPV)
Comprehensive Security
Industry’s most versatile 16G Fabric Switch: The Cisco MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch based on the “switch on a chip” ASIC delivers enterprise class capabilities in an affordable, compact 1RU form factor. The MDS 9148S, with 16 Gbps dedicated bandwidth per port can scale from a default of 12 ports to 48 ports, with on-demand port activation licenses. The “Pay as you Grow” model makes MDS 9148S a flexible and scalable option for departmental or branch SMB SANs. Hot swappable redundant power supplies with integrated fans are offered for high availability. The MDS 9148S is also powered by the same NX-OS that power the entire Cisco DC product portfolio. Cisco MDS 9148S gives customers the enhanced benefits of high performance, pay-as-you-grow flexibility and simplified deployment and management. Versatile enterprise-class storage Switch for the Entry-Level and Departmental SANs