As data from critical applications proliferates, customers are looking for deep visibility across the storage network, Cisco says.
Cisco on Thursday is introducing a series of new storage area networking (SAN) options that use built-in telemetry to help customers better analyze SAN operational performance.
First, Cisco is rolling out a new 32Gbps storage fabric switch, which enables customers to scale from eight to 16 ports on, and to 32 ports with an expansion module. The Cisco MDS 9132T switch supports flash arrays for FCP workloads now and will in the near future support FC-NVMe workloads. Its features include built-in telemetry diagnostics, SAN telemetry streaming, bi-directional airflow and RESTful API Support.
