Cisco MDS 9506 Specification Sheet page 4

Additionally, data plane traffic is secured
through VSANs, which are designed to
segregate traffic between multiple vir-
tual fabrics within the single physical
fabric infrastructure, and through
hardware-enforced zoning, which
further segregates traffic within
each VSAN.
Advanced security and management
The Enterprise Package feature is
designed to provide advanced security
and management capabilities. The
package helps improve management
with Quality of Service (QoS) and helps
improve security with Inter-VSAN
Routing for Fibre Channel, and
enhanced network security capabilities
including Switch-Switch and Host
Authentication.
The Fabric Manager Server Package
feature is designed to extend Cisco
Fabric Manager by providing historical
performance data collection, centralized
management services and support for
advanced application integration. This
feature helps simplify management of
large enterprise SAN infrastructures.
The package provides Fibre Channel
statistics monitoring, performance
thresholds, reporting, graphing and per-
formance database capabilities which
can helps simplify management of large
enterprise, metro and global SAN
infrastructures.
The Mainframe Package feature is
designed to enable mainframe storage
network applications including
IBM FICON® protocol; FICON Control
Unit Port (CUP); FICON and FCP inter-
mixing; FICON Switch Cascading and
Fabric Binding. This feature helps pro-
vide secure mainframe and open sys-
tem SAN infrastructure consolidation.
Storage Network Applications
The Storage Services Module, based
upon the 32-port Switching Module, is
a highly specialized feature which pro-
vides intelligent storage services in
addition to 1 and 2 Gbps Fibre Channel
switching. When combined with the
Storage Services Enabler Package,
the module is designed to enable inde-
pendent software vendors (ISVs) to
develop intelligent fabric applications.
IBM support for these ISV applications
is limited to IBM System Storage
Proven™ Solutions. For the most
current IBM System Storage Proven
application information, visit:
ibm.com/storage/proven
Capabilities to help reduce TCO
VSAN capability is designed to allow
more efficient SAN utilization by creat-
ing multiple isolated environments
within a single SAN fabric. Each VSAN
maintains its own fabric services for
added scalability and resilience. VSANs
allow the cost of the SAN infrastructure
to be shared among more users, while
helping to provide segregation and
security of traffic and retaining inde-
pendent control of configurations on a
VSAN-by-VSAN basis.