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Software Features
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m .
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Call Home
The Call Home feature detects switch failures and sends alerts along with relevant failure information.
These alerts are sent through e-mail to a user-specified customer center. The Call Home feature also
provides message throttling capabilities, periodic inventory messages, port syslog messages, and RMON
alert messages.
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QoS and Congestion Control
Switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family provide priority queuing and flow control services.
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide
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Preserves Cisco MDS 9000 Family enhanced capabilities including VSANs, advanced traffic
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management, and security across remote connections.
Improves application performance using one or more of the following options for the FCIP
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interface: FCIP write acceleration, FCIP tape acceleration, and FCIP compression.
iSCSI highlights
Extends the benefits of Fibre Channel SAN-based storage to IP-enabled servers at a lower cost
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point than possible using Fibre Channel interconnect alone.
Increases storage utilization and availability through consolidation of IP and Fibre Channel
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block storage.
Preserves through a transparent operation the functionality of legacy storage applications such
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as zoning tools.
Allows your existing TCP/IP networks to function more effectively as storage area networks by
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automating the discovery, management, and configuration of iSCSI devices.
Chapter 37, "Configuring IP Storage."
Chapter 45, "Configuring Call Home."
The Quality of Service (QoS) feature has the following advantages:
Guarantees relative bandwidth to application traffic.
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Controls latency experienced by application traffic.
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Prioritizes one application over another (for example, prioritizing transactional traffic over bulk
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traffic) through bandwidth and latency differentiation.
Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC)—FCC is a flow control mechanism that alleviates
congestion on Fibre Channel networks. Any switch in the network can detect congestion for an
output port. The switches sample frames from the congested queue and generate messages about the
congestion level upstream toward the source of the congestion. The switch closest to the source, with
FCC enabled, can perform one of two actions:
Forwards the frames as other vendor switches do.
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Limits the flow of frames from the port causing the congestion.
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Chapter 47, "Configuring Fabric Congestion Control and QoS."
Chapter 1
Product Overview
OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
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