White Paper Abstract:
Virtualization brings numerous advantages to the data center, i.e. more efficient resource utilization, decreased level of management complexity, lower power and cooling demands, etc. However, it also introduced new challenges, especially when it comes to SAN deployments in virtualized environments, such as specific performance requirements, application isolation, security aspects, granularity in traffic engineering and access control, business continuance and disaster recovery implementations in virtualized environments, advanced connectivity options.
This document describes how Cisco MDS 9000 Family introduces innovative approach in addressing these challenges in the data center.