Cisco Mds Switches4/24/2021
Today, I would like to address how Molina Healthcare utilized Cisco MDS 9700, Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus to overcome challenges posed by growth and new regulations.
![]() No matter how rapidly healthcare needs change, Molina Healthcare is ready. In 2009 Molina consolidated its data center operations and virtualized much of its server infrastructure. Since then, business growth and the need to support new healthcare plans have escalated data storage demands. For example, in 2009, Molina stored 200 terabytes (TB) of data. Without budget to add IT headcount, and with the SAN due for a refresh, Molina decided to converge its LAN and SAN infrastructures. Molina had turned to Cisco for network solutions and services during its 2009 data center migration and consolidation initiative. Once again, the company chose Cisco solutions for its converged infrastructure. Vblock 300 and 700 Infrastructure Packages include Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS), Cisco Nexus switches, EMC Symmetrix VMAX storage, and VMware vSphere 4 and are designed to meet the high-performance demands of mission-critical applications and large-scale virtualization. Molina also chose Cisco MDS 9500 Series and 9710 Multilayer Directors to replace its existing SAN switches. They deliver superior performance and availability and provide high consistency across the data center. The Cisco MDS 9710 will be essential to supporting all of our data center storage infrastructure. The network design based on Nexus switches provides architectural flexibility to connect servers with 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, or Fibre Channel connectivity and simultaneously reduce costs associated with ports, cables, and cooling requirements. Today, critical applications including Microsoft Exchange, Molinas Picture Archiving and Communication System, all virtual machines, and health plan business applications are fully migrated to the converged infrastructure. The consistent operating system used across Molinas Cisco MDS 9710 systems has enabled IT staff to complete migrations within days rather than weeks or months. Cisco MDS systems deliver the performance, availability, scalability, and security needed for mission-critical applications, massive amounts of data, and cloud environments. Cisco MDS 9710 Multilayer Directors support up to 16-Gbps Fibre Channel and 1.5-Tbps throughput per slot, giving Molina superb scalability. ![]()
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