White Paper Abstract:
This guide is for sales engineers and storage administrators who want to understand the Cisco®Storage Media Encryption (SME) service. Basic knowledge of Cisco MDS 9000 family Fibre Channel concepts and SANs, including tape backup environments, is expected. Familiarity with the Fibre Channel redirect (FC-redirect) feature of the Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software is desirable.
This design guide provides details about Cisco SME data flow, supported topologies, and best practices for Cisco SME deployment in a tape backup environment.
Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software Release 3.3(1) provides scalability enhancements for large scale Cisco SME deployments.