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Tools for Software Configuration

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Port Tracking

The Port Tracking feature is unique to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of switches. This feature uses
information about the operational state of the link to initiate a failure in the link that connects the edge
device. This process of converting the indirect failure to a direct failure triggers a faster recovery process
towards redundant links. When enabled, the port tracking feature brings down the configured links based
on the failed link and forces the traffic to be redirected to another redundant link.
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SAN Extension Tuner

The SAN extension tuner (SET) feature is unique to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of switches. This
feature helps you optimize FCIP performance by generating SCSI I/O commands and directing such
traffic to a specific virtual target. You can specify the size of the test I/O transfers and how many
concurrent I/Os to generate while testing. The SET reports the resulting I/Os per second (IOPS) and I/O
latency, which helps you determine the number of concurrent I/Os needed to maximize FCIP throughput.
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Command Scheduler

The Cisco MDS command scheduler feature helps you schedule configuration and maintenance jobs in
any switch in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. You can use this feature to schedule jobs on a one-time basis
or periodically.
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Intelligent Storage Services

The Advanced Services Modules (ASMs) and Storage Services Modules (SSMs) support Intelligent
Storage Services Intelligent Storage Services include the following:
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Services and
Tools for Software Configuration
You can use one of two configuration management tools to configure your SANs: the CLI and the Cisco
MDS 9000 Fabric Manager graphical user interface (see
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide
1-14
Chapter 48, "Configuring Port Tracking."
Chapter 34, "Configuring the SAN Extension Tuner."
Chapter 15, "Scheduling Maintenance Jobs."
Fibre Channel write acceleration
SCSI flow statistics
SANTap
Network Accelerated Serverless Backup (NASB)
Chapter 39, "Configuring Fibre Channel Write
Statistics,", Chapter 40, "Configuring SANTap,"
Acceleration", Chapter 38, "Configuring SCSI Flow
and Chapter 41, "Configuring NASB."
Figure 1-1).
OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Chapter 1 Product Overview