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Inter-VSAN Routing With the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Switches and Cisco SAN-OS 2.1

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Overview In nowadays complex SANs, scaling while maintaining a high level of availability is the most difficult problem for any SAN architect. The combination of the award-winning hardware and industry-leading software features offered by Cisco Systems has enabled the company to bring a level of scalability and availability that is unparalleled in the industry. Cisco Virtual SAN (VSAN) technology has changed the way SANs are being deployed. It has given customers design flexibility previously available only in more developed network technologies such as Ethernet. The VSAN concept has made such an impact on the industry that it has been adopted by ANSI T11 as the standard by which all virtual fabric implementations should be based. IVR was a natural evolution of that same VSAN technology.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching, Storage Management, SANs

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