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Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage Intelligent storage networking for IBM System Storage infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions Highlights ■ Provides Fibre Channel throu.
The 24-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel switching module is designed for high performance storage networking applications. T wenty-four autosensing 1, 2 and 4 Gbps ports are designed deliver sustained bandwidth requir ed to meet the performance requir ements of enterprise-class storage and servers.
and enterprise-class storage and servers. Port bandwidth reservation enables 1, 2 or 4 Gbps switching band- width to be flexibly dedicated to ports to meet a wide range of application requir ements.
Additionally , data plane traffic is secured through VSANs, which ar e designed to segregate traf fic between multiple vir- tual fabrics within the single physical fabric infrastructure, and thr ough hardwar e-enforced zoning, which further segregates traf fic within each VSAN.
Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage at a glance IBM product numbers 2054-E04—Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage includes dual Supervisor -2 cards, dual 1900 W AC power supplies All models include SAN-OS 3.
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