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Managing Multi-Vendor Fabrics

Overview A heterogeneous SAN based on multi-vendor devices that may include a mixture of older and newer components can present significant interoperability and management problems. IT managers need an application that will tie these devices together and simplify the complexity of the storage network. A robust fabric management application will enable the administrator to configure, monitor, and manage complex and growing heterogeneous networks.

To tie diverse SAN devices together the fabric management application must provide:

• Automatic device discovery

• Topology mapping

• Persistence

• Status monitoring

• Event logging and notification

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	McDATA	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management

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