Cisco MDS 9220i Multiservice Fabric Switch - Base - switch - 4 x 32Gb Fibre Channel SFP+ + 2 x 1 Gigabit FCIP - front to back airflow - rack-mountable
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Flexible FCIP port speed
In line with recent industry trends, the Cisco MDS 9220i provides flexible connectivity options toward datacenter switches, routers or DWDM systems, including 25G speed.
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IBM Fibre Connection support
Cisco MDS 9220i cost-effectively scales up for IBM Fibre Connection (FICON) mainframe environments.
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Intelligent application services engine
The Cisco MDS 9220i includes, as standard, a single application-services engine that enables the included Cisco SAN Extension over IP software solution package to run on the two or more 1/10/25 or 40 Gigabit Ethernet storage-services ports. The Cisco SAN Extension over IP package provides an integrated, cost-effective, and reliable business-continuance solution that uses IP infrastructure by offering FCIP for remote SAN extension, along with a variety of advanced features to optimize the performance and manageability of FCIP links.
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Hardware-based virtual fabric isolation with Virtual SANs (VSANs) and Fibre Channel routing with Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR)
VSANs and IVR enable deployment of large-scale multisite and heterogeneous SAN topologies. Integration into port-level hardware allows any port in a system or in a fabric to be partitioned into any VSAN. Included in the optional Cisco MDS 9000 Family Enterprise advanced software package, IVR provides line-rate routing between any of the ports in a system or in a fabric without the need for external routing appliances.
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Platform for intelligent fabric applications
The Cisco MDS 9220i provides an open platform that delivers the intelligence and advanced features required to make multilayer intelligent SANs a reality, including hardware-enabled innovations to host or accelerate applications for data migration, storage backup, and data replication. Hosting or accelerating these applications in the network can dramatically improve scalability, availability, security, and manageability of the storage environment, resulting in increased utility and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Intelligent network services
Cisco MDS 9220i uses VSAN technology for hardware-enforced, isolated environments within a single physical fabric, Access Control Lists (ACLs) for hardware-based intelligent frame processing, and advanced traffic management features such as fabric-wide Quality of Service (QoS) to facilitate migration from SAN islands to enterprise-wide storage networks.
Cisco MDS 9220i Multiservice Fabric Switch, the next generation of the highly flexible, proven Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multiservice Switches, is an optimized platform for deploying high-performance SAN-extension solutions, distributed intelligent fabric services, and cost-effective multiprotocol connectivity for both open systems and mainframe environments. With a compact form factor and advanced capabilities, the Cisco MDS 9220i is an ideal solution for departmental and remote branch-office SANs as well as in large-scale SANs in conjunction with Cisco MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors.
- Flexible FCIP port speed
- IBM Fibre Connection support
- Intelligent application services engine
- Hardware-based virtual fabric isolation with Virtual SANs (VSANs) and Fibre Channel routing with Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR)
- Platform for intelligent fabric applications
- Intelligent network services
