【Cisco白皮书】Cisco MDS 9000 系列多层交换机iSCSI方案设计

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摘　要：
As enterprises migrate fromDAS to SAN environments, and the need to consolidate enterprise storage resources increases, there is high demand for extending the consolidation effort to mid-range and low end application servers. In addition, the need to extend the reaches of a consolidated SAN over metro and wide area networks becomes a necessity. Cisco’s MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches provide enterprises with the ability to build large-scale Fibre Channel SANs and extend these SANs to mid-range servers and metro and wide area networks. By using FCIP and iSCSI protocols, enterprises can now leverage Ethernet and IP technologies to further extend their storage environment and continue to realize the cost savings derived from storage consolidation. Using the 16-port non-blocking Fibre Channel (FC) switching module or the 32-port shared-bandwidth Fibre Channel switching module, enterprises can attach their storage devices, tape libraries and host bus adapters to build up to 224 ports into a single switch. With the addition of the IP Services switching module providing 8 Gigabit Ethernet ports for iSCSI and FCIP services, enterprises can extend the SAN to other low to mid range servers with iSCSI or connect SAN islands over IP via the FCIP protocol. Using all of the options available in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of switches, large-scale, high-port density SANs become reality. Customers may use their existing IP infrastructure along with their in-house IP expertise to optimize enterprise storage consolidation. Management of the enterprise SAN is also made simpler with the extensive multiprotocol management features of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.


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