Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product MDS 9000 Cisco Systems
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Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 6 of 11 Data A vailability A storage network infrastructure provides multiple paths to storage subsystems, including disks and tapes, for both high availability and scalability .
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Cisco Systems, Inc. All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement. Page 8 of 11 The MDS 9000 Family consists of the MDS 9500 Series of Multilayer Directors and the MDS 9216 Multilayer fabric switch.
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