Design Guides

• Advanced SAN Design
  Factors to consider when designing a SAN using Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors.

Partner Solution Design Guides

• Cisco & EMC: Intelligent Fabric Applications
  Network-hosted virtualization with EMC Invista and Cisco MDS 9000 Series products.
  
  
• Solutions for Application Acceleration (PDF - 160 KB)
  Solutions using Cisco Wide Area Application Services and EMC Celerra storage technology.
  
  
• Designing High-Performance EMC File Systems Using Cisco MDS iSCSI
  
  
• Technology Validation of Microsoft Exchange on iSCSI Storage (PDF - 680 KB)
  
  
• Oracle 11i Implementation with Cisco MDS 9000 Infrastructure (PDF - 640 KB)
  
  
• IBM FICON Intermix Using the Cisco MDS 9000
  Mixing traffic on the same SAN as other traffic, while maintaining isolation and resilience.

Product Design Guides

• Cisco MDS 9000 Family Quality of Service
  
  
• Cisco MDS 9000 Family Switch Architecture
  
  
• Understanding Multigeneration Configs on Cisco MDS 9000 Switches
  
  
• ISCSI Performance Testing on MDS 9000
  
  
• Using the Cisco SPAN Port for SAN Analysis
  
  
• Intelligent Traffic Services with Cisco MDS 9000
  Use of oversubscription and traffic management to ensure required SAN performance.
  
  
• Inter-VSAN Routing with Cisco MDS 9000 and SAN-OS 2.1
  How to interconnect data centers and provide access to common storage resources.
  
  
• Using VSANs and Zoning with Cisco MDS 9000
  The cost, scalability, availability, and security benefits and limitations of zoning and VSANs within a storage network.
  
  
• Fibre Channel over IP Using Cisco MDS 9000