Cisco MDS Series Valuable Features
The product is very stable and performs well. During the update periods, the devices do not need to reload, ensuring constant availability. It is easy to set up and use.
View full review »SAN switches in Cisco MDS Series are a valuable feature of the solution for our company.
View full review »The most valuable feature of the Cisco MDS Series is its reliability, support, and scalability.
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The most valuable feature of the Cisco MDS Series is performance and stability multipathing. The SAN Environment should be stable and require near-line performance.
View full review »It is a stable product. The solution doesn’t relapse during updates. The product is easy to use.
View full review »The most valuable features of this solution are the devices, databases, and zoning.
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Shivanand Hadapad
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The features I found most valuable are the ease of deployment, it's easy to upgrade, easy to configure and easy to administer. There is no need for vendor professional services which saves project cost. The usage of WebUI for all primary features like hostname, IP address, SNMP traps, zone sets, addition and deletion of zone members or zone sets, backup of switch DB is very simple.
The CLI mode is also very easy to use for deployment, management and administration. The commands are easy to remember and is also user-friendly to do all management and administration tasks. It helps to meet network security requirements of role-based access based on AAA. It's easy to integrate with LDAP, Active Directory. It supports FTP, SFTP, SSHv2, SNMPv3 and also supports AES and many more features.
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PhPr
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MDS's reliability is at a high level. The issues with these switches are extremely rare, and the whole product line is very predictable and stable.
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- It enables us to integrate and load balance between multiple layer one fiber vendor link. Very useful!
- The MDS 9222i VSAN technology allows us to create separate groups for multiple vendor links.
- Less expensive than other multi-protocol routers in the market
- Provides data compression QOS service at layer one which enables us to transfer larger data sets in less time
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