Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption Configuration Guide - Release 4.x (OL-18091-01, February 2009)

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption Configuration Guide
OL-18091-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Chapter 1 Product Overview
About Cisco Storage Media Encryption
Figure 1-1 shows the integration of Cisco SME with SAN fabrics to offer seamless management of data
encryption.
Figure 1-1 Cisco Storage Media Encryption
This section covers the following topics:
• Cisco Storage Media Encryption Features, page 1-2
• Cisco SME Terminology, page 1-7
• Supported Topologies, page 1-8
• In-Service Software Upgrade in Cisco SME, page 1-9
Cisco Storage Media Encryption Features
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of intelligent directors and fabric switches provide an open,
standards-based platform for hosting intelligent fabric applications and services. As a platform, the
Cisco MDS 9000 family switches provide all essential features required to deliver secure, highly
available, enterprise-class Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) fabric services. Cisco has
integrated encryption for data-at-rest as a transparent fabric service to take full advantage of this
platform.
Storage Media Encryption is a standards-based encryption solution for heterogeneous tape libraries and
virtual tape libraries. Cisco SME is managed with Cisco Fabric Manager and a command-line interface
(CLI) for unified SAN management and security provisioning. Cisco SME includes the following
comprehensive built-in key management features:
• Transparent Fabric Service, page 1-3
• Encryption, page 1-3
• Cisco SME Roles, page 1-3
• Key Management, page 1-4
• Clustering, page 1-5
• FC-Redirect, page 1-6
• Server-Based Discovery for Provisioning Tapes, page 1-6
• Target-Based Load Balancing, page 1-6
• SME Scalability, page 1-6
Servers Storage
Fibre Channel SAN
Cisco MDS 9200
Series
Cisco MDS 9500
Series
Storage Media Encryption (SME)
Name: XYZ
SSN: 1234567890
Amount: $123,456
Status: Gold
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