Cisco SAN Extension Over IP Package
The Cisco SAN Extension over IP Package enables extended storage area network connectivity across IP networks, ensuring data availability and disaster recovery capabilities for your critical business applications.
- Extended Reach: Gain the ability to extend your SAN infrastructure over standard IP networks, overcoming physical distance limitations.
- Enhanced Availability: Ensure business continuity by replicating or accessing data across geographically dispersed locations.
- Cost Efficiency: Utilize existing IP networks for SAN extension, reducing the need for dedicated Fibre Channel links over long distances.
- Simplified Management: Integrate SAN extension capabilities into your existing IP infrastructure for streamlined operations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco SAN Extension over IP Package provides the software licensing required to enable Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) tunneling for the Cisco MDS 9000 platform. It allows organizations to extend their Storage Area Networks (SANs) across IP networks, facilitating disaster recovery, business continuity, and data replication between geographically separated data centers.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in mid-market and enterprise environments utilize this licensing to connect disparate SANs, ensuring data accessibility and resilience. It is essential for businesses that need to maintain data synchronization or provide failover capabilities between locations, integrating seamlessly with existing Cisco MDS switches.
- FCIP Tunneling: Enables the transport of Fibre Channel frames over an IP network.
- Distance Extension: Overcomes geographical limitations for SAN connectivity.
- Disaster Recovery: Facilitates data replication and failover between sites.
- IP Network Utilization: Leverages existing IP infrastructure for SAN extension.
- Performance Optimization: Offers features for optimizing traffic over WAN links.
This Cisco licensing empowers mid-market organizations to build resilient and geographically distributed storage networks without the complexity of dedicated long-haul links.
What This Enables
Enable Extended SAN Connectivity Over IP
Enable teams to extend their Storage Area Networks (SANs) across standard IP networks, overcoming physical distance limitations. Streamline disaster recovery and data replication processes between geographically separated data centers.
organizations with distributed data centers, businesses requiring remote data access, IT teams managing storage infrastructure, companies implementing disaster recovery plans
Facilitate Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Automate the replication of critical data to a secondary site using FCIP tunneling over IP networks. Protect against site-specific outages by ensuring data availability and rapid failover capabilities.
businesses with RTO/RPO requirements, companies with regulatory compliance needs for data redundancy, IT departments focused on resilience, organizations with multiple physical locations
Optimize Storage Network Costs
Streamline the deployment of SAN extension by leveraging existing IP network infrastructure instead of costly dedicated Fibre Channel links. Reduce capital and operational expenses associated with long-distance SAN connectivity.
cost-conscious IT departments, mid-market companies seeking efficient infrastructure, organizations consolidating network resources, businesses looking to reduce WAN costs
Key Features
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) Tunneling
Allows Fibre Channel traffic to be transported over standard IP networks, enabling SAN extension across distances.
WAN Optimization Features
Includes features like compression and fragmentation to improve performance over slower or higher-latency WAN links.
IP Network Compatibility
Utilizes existing IP infrastructure, reducing the need for dedicated, expensive Fibre Channel links over long distances.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Support
Facilitates data replication and failover between geographically separated data centers, enhancing resilience.
Cisco MDS 9000 Platform Integration
Designed to work with specific Cisco MDS 9000 series switches, ensuring compatibility and performance within a Cisco environment.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust disaster recovery and data replication capabilities to meet strict regulatory compliance and ensure continuous operation of trading and transactional systems.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must maintain continuous access to patient data for regulatory compliance (HIPAA) and critical care operations, necessitating reliable data replication and disaster recovery solutions.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often operate across multiple sites and require synchronized data for production planning, inventory management, and supply chain operations, benefiting from extended SAN capabilities for data consistency.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies need to ensure the availability and integrity of critical data for public services and security, often operating with distributed infrastructure that benefits from SAN extension for resilience and data sharing.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is SAN Extension over IP?
SAN Extension over IP, also known as FCIP, allows you to extend your Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure across standard IP networks. This enables features like disaster recovery, data replication, and remote data access between geographically separated locations.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This specific package, L-M92EXT1AK9=, is for the Cisco MDS 9000 platform, specifically enabling functionality on modules like the MSM-18/4 or MSFM-1.
What are the benefits of using IP for SAN extension?
The primary benefit is cost savings, as it allows you to leverage existing IP networks instead of deploying expensive dedicated Fibre Channel links over long distances. It also simplifies connectivity between remote sites for disaster recovery and data replication.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
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