Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Guide

FICON tape acceleration over FCIP provides the following advantages:
• Efficiently utilizes the tape device by decreasing idle time
• More sustained throughput as latency increases
• Similar to FCP tape acceleration, and does not conflict with it
FICON tape read acceleration over FCIP is supported from Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.0(1). For more
information refer to the Configuring FICON Tape Read Acceleration, on page 287.
Note
Figure 58: Host Directly Accessing IBM/STK (StorageTek) Library, on page 285 through Figure 61: Host
Accessing Peer-to-Peer VTS (Virtual Tape Server), on page 286 show supported configurations:
Figure 58: Host Directly Accessing IBM/STK (StorageTek) Library
Figure 59: Host Accessing Standalone IBM-VTS (Virtual Tape Server) /STK-VSM (Virtual Shared Memory)
Figure 60: Host Accessing Peer-to-Peer VTS (Virtual Tape Server)
Cisco MDS 9000 Series Fabric Configuration Guide, Release 8.x
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Configuring FICON
FICON Tape Acceleration

Cisco MDS 9000 Series Specifications

General

Category	Switch
Operating System	Cisco NX-OS
Ports	Varies by model
Protocols	Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), iSCSI
Redundancy	Redundant supervisors, power supplies, and fans
Management	Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), CLI, SNMP
Virtualization Support	VSANs (Virtual SANs)
Security Features	Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)
Hot Swappable Components	power supplies, fans
Power Supply Options	AC and DC options available