Cisco MDS 9000 Switches Resold by IBM

Cisco MDS 9000 Family, resold by IBM, offers expanded capabilities with 8 Gbps Fibre Channel support features
The Cisco MDS family adds three new switching modules:

• 24 Port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module
• 48 Port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module
• 4/44 Port 8 Gbps Host Optimized Fibre Channel Switching Module

The Cisco MDS 9000 family of Fabric Switch and Director Offerings offers expanded capabilities, with the introduction of the Cisco MDS 9000 8 Gbps switching modules.

For the 2062 Models D04, D07 and E11

• 24 Port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module
• 4/44 Port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module
• 48 Port 8 Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module
• FC 8 Gb SW SFP Transceiver
• FC 8 Gb SW SFP Transceiver – 4 Pack
• FC 8 Gb 10km LW SFP Transceiver
• FC 8 Gb 10km LW SFP Transceiver – 4 Pack

For the 2062 Model D07 — Fiber Optic Cable Four Packs

For the 2062 Model E11 — 9513 Fabric2 Modules

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fibre Channel 8-Gbps Switching Modules offer the following features:

• High-performance Inter Switch Links (ISLs): Support up to 16 links in a single PortChannel; links can span any port on any module within a chassis for added scalability and resilience. Up to 4095 buffer-to-buffer credits can be assigned to a single Fibre Channel port, providing industry-leading extension of storage networks up to 8000 km at 1 Gbps, 4000 km at 2 Gbps, 2000 km at 4 Gbps, or 1000 km at 8 Gbps while maintaining full link bandwidth.
• Intelligent network services: Provide integrated support for VSAN technology, access control lists (ACLs) for hardware-based intelligent frame processing, and advanced traffic-management features such as Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC) and fabric-wide quality of service (QoS) to enable migration from SAN islands to enterprise storage networks.
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  Integrated hardware-based VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR): Enable deployment of large-scale multisite and heterogeneous SAN topologies. Integration into port-level hardware allows any port or any virtual machine (VM) within a system or fabric to be partitioned into any VSAN. Integrated hardware-based IVR provides line-rate routing between any ports within a system or fabric without the need for external routing appliances.
• Comprehensive security framework: Supports RADIUS and TACACS+, Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP), Secure File Transfer Protocol (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.

Key prerequisites
Requires Cisco MDS NX-OS 4.1, or higher

Planned availability date

• January 30, 2009 — Features #5850 and #5854
• December 5, 2008 — All other features