SAN

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Twenty years ago, Cisco started shipping the Cisco MDS 9000 storage networking switches. Since then, Cisco has introduced a number of groundbreaking storage networking innovations like Nexus switching and management technologies. These innovations have benefited our customers for decades now and have advanced the storage networking industry at large.

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Cisco supports the design and implementation of high-speed Fibre Channel fabrics, leading a change to the traditional FSPF link cost calculation for 128 Gbps serial interfaces due to the Cisco-only capability to create logical links with up to 16 members.

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Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) is a scalable application for managing Fibre Channel SAN. NDFC One View provides insights into what is happening within the Fibre Channel SANs at multiple locations in a single pane of glass.

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Evolve your SAN with no disruption to support today's application workloads and performance requirements? Learn how with Cisco MDS.

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Cisco DIRL offers solutions to SAN congestion without any dependency on hosts or storage. Cisco DIRL is innovative technology that bridges the performance gaps between ultra-fast All-Flash NVMe storage Arrays and slower application servers.

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By focusing on performance, observability, and automation, Cisco delivers 64G Fibre Channel Done Right with Congestion Management and Prevention and a SAN Insights Discovery Tool.

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Dynamic Ingress Rate Limiting represents the newest and shining arrow in the quiver of MDS 9000 storage network administrators for addressing slow drain and SAN congestion situations.

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SAN congestion is a real challenge and can manifest in different ways. In order to exemplify the concepts, we compare the SAN to a highway system. This blog has two parts.

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SAN congestion is a real challenge and can manifest in different ways. In order to exemplify the concepts, we compare the SAN to a highway system. This blog has two parts.