IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Cisco MDS 9148 for IBM System Storage Designed for ease of use in high performance SAN environments Extraordinary price and performance, with up to forty eight 8 Gbps line-rate ports in a compact one rack unit platform Scales from 16 ports to 48 ports in eight-port increments Redundant power supplies, fans and other availability features help minimize downtime and improve business resiliency Built-in management, operational and conguration tools, with plug-and-play features that support quick deployment and easy end-to-end SAN management All-in-one licensing with no hidden charges. Cisco MDS 9148 for small, midrange and large enterprise customers The Cisco MDS 9148 for IBM® System Storage® Multilayer Fabric Switch (2417-C48) is designed to provide an affordable, highly capable and scalable storage networking solution for small, midrange and large enterprise customers. The switch provides line-rate 8 Gbps ports with high-performance, high-density, and enterprise-class availability. The switch is designed to offer outstanding value by providing exibility, high availability, security and ease of use at an affordable price in a compact, one rack-unit (1RU) form factor. With the ability to expand from 16 to 48 ports in eight-port increments, the Cisco MDS 9148 can be used as the foundation for small, stand-alone SANs, as a top-of-rack switch, or as an edge switch in larger, core-edge storage area network (SAN) infrastructures. The Cisco MDS 9148 Multilayer Fabric Switch is designed to support quick conguration with zero-touch plug-and-play features and task wizards that allow it to be deployed quickly and easily in networks of any size. Powered by Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS software, it includes advanced storage networking features and functions, and is compatible with Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Directors and Switches, providing transparent, end-to-end service delivery in core-edge deployments.

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Fabric connectivity can be the foundation for infrastructure simplication solutions with IBM System i®, IBM System p® and IBM System x® servers. It also supports storage consolidation and high-availability clustering with System Storage disk arrays. Business continuity capabilities can help businesses protect valuable data with System Storage tape subsystems and IBM Tivoli® Storage Manager data protection software. Save rack space with a high-density, scalable design Features of the high performance Cisco MDS 9148 ● High performance connectivity: Is an ideal...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet storage offered by IBM System Storage disk storage arrays. Fibre Channel SANs were developed to provide efficient, high performance access to many storage devices from many servers. Comprehensive security framework: The Cisco MDS 9148 supports RADIUS and TACACS+, port security, fabric binding, Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) hostto-switch and switch-to-switch authentication, Secure FTP (SFTP), Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2) and Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3) for implementing Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), VSANs, hardwareenforced...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet High availability SAN conguration The Cisco MDS 9148 is an excellent switch to use in a clustered server environment. Separate SAN switches enable two separate SAN fabrics as a means to help minimize or avoid single points of failure. The yellow cluster shown above shows one possible implementation that uses redundant components and helps avoid application outages. Many applications are used continuously. A common design approach to support this is to run multiple instances of the application across a cluster of servers. When a server fails or must be taken...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet The switch is designed to support additional single optical transceiver upgrades without fabric disruption. In addition, the Cisco MDS 9148 is designed to support nondisruptive rmware upgrades to allow rmware to be downloaded and activated while the fabric switch remains operational. Redundant switches can be deployed for high availability clustering applications. Two Cisco MDS 9148 fabric switches can be connected to other members of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family for connectivity over metro and global distances without merging the local and remote fabrics. The...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Capabilities to help reduce TCO Focused on supporting efficient operations and management of virtual machine-aware fabrics, DCNM is designed to provide a robust framework and comprehensive feature set that meets the routing, switching and storage administration needs of both present and future virtualized data centers. It also delivers timely management support for data center hardware platforms and Cisco NX-OS innovations (this requires Cisco MDS NX-OS 5.2, or later versions). VSAN capability allows more efficient SAN utilization by creating multiple isolated...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Cisco MDS 9148 for IBM System Storage at a glance Operating systems supported* Windows 2003 and 2008 Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Linux Advanced Server SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) United Linux Novell NetWare Storage products supported* IBM Storage System DS3000, DS4000, DS5000, DS6000, and DS8000®. XIV 2810 and 2812 System Storage TS2900, TS3100, TS3310, TS3400, TS3500, Tape Libraries System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Fiber optic cable Fiber optic cables are required and available in multimode format One year limited warranty; CRU and...

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