Flexible IP Storage Services: delivers both FCIP and iSCSI IP Storage services?software configurable on a port-by-port basis.
Simplified business continuance and storage consolidation: Uses widely known IP to cost-effectively connect to more servers and more locations over greater distances than previously possible.
Simplified management: Provides unified management environment independent of whether servers use Fibre Channel or IP to connect to the storage network.
Comprehensive security: combines ubiquitous IP security infrastructure with Cisco Virtual SANs (VSANs), hardware-based zoning and hardware-based access control lists (ACLs) to provide robust security.