Cisco Storage Services Enabler for MDS 9500
This Cisco platform license subscription unlocks advanced storage services for your MDS 9500 platform, ensuring critical data access and operational continuity.
- Access to Advanced Features: Gain entitlement to specialized storage services and functionalities on your Cisco MDS 9500.
- Subscription-Based Licensing: Benefit from a flexible, recurring subscription model for predictable IT budgeting and continuous feature updates.
- Platform Specific: Designed exclusively for the Cisco MDS 9500 series, ensuring optimized performance and integration.
- Operational Continuity: Maintain compliance and ensure uninterrupted access to vital storage resources for your business.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco Storage Services Enabler for MDS 9500 is a platform software subscription that unlocks advanced storage networking capabilities on your Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors. This license provides entitlement to a suite of features designed to enhance storage traffic management, data protection, and overall network efficiency, ensuring your critical data infrastructure operates at peak performance.
This subscription is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations that rely on robust storage area networks. It integrates directly into the Cisco MDS 9500 platform, providing essential services that support business-critical applications and data storage needs within their own data centers or co-location facilities.
- Enhanced Storage Services: Unlocks specialized features for intelligent traffic management and data services.
- Subscription Model: Provides access to features and updates on a recurring basis, aligning with operational budgets.
- MDS 9500 Compatibility: Specifically designed for the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors.
- Feature Entitlement: Grants the right to use advanced software features for storage networking.
- Compliance and Performance: Supports regulatory requirements and optimizes storage network performance.
Empower your storage network with essential advanced features through this Cisco subscription, tailored for business efficiency and reliability.
What This Enables
Enable Advanced Storage Traffic Management
Enable teams to optimize data flow and performance across their storage area network. Streamline the delivery of critical data to applications and users, reducing latency and improving application responsiveness.
dedicated storage network, SAN fabric, data center operations, enterprise storage
Ensure Feature Access and Compliance
Automate the process of maintaining up-to-date software features required for regulatory compliance and operational best practices. Provide continuous entitlement to necessary storage services without manual license tracking.
regulated environments, IT infrastructure management, data governance, compliance adherence
Enhance Data Protection Capabilities
Streamline the implementation of advanced data protection and recovery services within the storage network. Support business continuity by ensuring robust data availability and rapid recovery options.
business continuity planning, disaster recovery readiness, data resilience, critical data services
Key Features
Platform Software Subscription
Provides ongoing access to advanced storage services and feature updates on a predictable, recurring basis.
MDS 9500 Series Specific
Ensures optimized integration and performance for your existing Cisco MDS 9500 Directors.
Advanced Storage Services
Unlocks specialized functionalities to enhance traffic management, data protection, and overall network efficiency.
Feature Entitlement
Grants the legal right to utilize advanced software capabilities, ensuring compliance and operational integrity.
Subscription Billing
Offers a flexible and budget-friendly model for accessing essential storage networking features.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require highly available and performant storage networks to manage sensitive transactional data and meet strict regulatory compliance standards for data integrity and access.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations handle vast amounts of patient data that must be securely stored, readily accessible for critical care, and protected against loss, often under strict HIPAA compliance mandates.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations rely on uninterrupted data flow for real-time monitoring, control systems, and supply chain management, demanding high reliability and performance from their storage infrastructure.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies manage highly confidential client data that requires secure storage, strict access controls, and long-term data retention to meet professional and regulatory obligations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Cisco Storage Services Enabler for MDS 9500?
It is a platform software subscription license that unlocks advanced storage networking features and services for Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors. This license provides entitlement to specific functionalities for a defined subscription term.
What hardware does this license apply to?
This license is specifically designed for and applies to the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors, enabling enhanced capabilities on these platforms.
What is the billing model for this license?
This is a subscription-based license, meaning it is billed on a recurring basis for the duration of the subscription term, providing continuous access to the enabled features.
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
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.