White Paper Abstract:
Cisco® MDS 9000 SANTap is one of the intelligent fabric services offered by the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap operates as a tap in the SAN, providing a reliable copy of storage write operations to a partner appliance. Cisco MDS 9000 SANTap enables partner applications to provide data continuity, data protection, online data migration, storage performance, and service-level agreement (SLA) monitoring without the drawbacks of in-band data-path or out-of-band host-based devices.