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Cisco MDS NX-OS 5.0

Cisco MDS NX-OS 5.0 Video Data Sheet

Learn more about Cisco storage networks and NX-OS 5.0. (5:54 min.)

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Designed to create a strategic SAN platform with superior reliability, performance, scalability, and features, Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software powers Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches.

Advantages of the software include:

• Flexibility and scalability for enterprise SANs
• Consistency across platforms to provide a unified software base for unification of Ethernet, storage, and high-performance computing networks
• Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) through integrated fabric applications, security, and ease of management

The software's essential features include the following:

• Integrated fabric applications to deliver network-based storage applications and services
• Tightly integrated SAN Extension and I/O Acceleration to support open systems and mainframe I/O traffic over metropolitan-area networks (MANs) and WANs
• Virtual SAN (VSAN) capability to improve Fibre Channel SAN scalability, availability, manageability, and security
• End-to-end virtualization and mobility to simplify deployment and management of virtual machines, VSAN fabrics, blade servers, and virtualized storage devices
• Integrated encryption features to help preserve the integrity and confidentiality of Fibre Channel traffic between modular switches within a data center or across MANs and WANs