Cisco MDS 9706 Multilayer Director for IBM System Storage
To deploy unified fabrics with FC and FCoE
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 5, 2015 at 2:52 pmCisco MDS 9706 Multilayer Director for IBM System Storage addresses the requirements of large virtualized data center storage environments.
It delivers availability, security, scalability, ease of management, and transparent integration of new technologies for flexible data center SAN solutions.
It shares the same OS and management interface with other Cisco data center switches, enabling to deploy unified fabrics with FC and FCoE (FCoE) connectivity for low TCO.
It has been designed to deliver:
- Lower TCO with SAN consolidation
- Scalable expansion with investment protection enterprise availability
- Business transformation with enterprise cloud deployment
- Convergence with multihop FCoE
- A solution for robust security
Key prerequisites
The Cisco MDS 9706 Multilayer Director for IBM System Storage supports FC connectivity. Model 9710-E06 supports all features and functions listed, and requires Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release 6.2.9, or later.
Planned availability date: March 6, 2015
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