Cisco MDS
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Cisco MDS is a family of Fibre Channel storage networking switches from Cisco designed for high-performance, scalable, and secure SAN environments in data centers.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cisco MDS storage networking | 2 |
| Cisco MDS canonical | 1 |
| Cisco MDS 9000 Series | 1 |
| Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches | 1 |
| Cisco MDS storage networking switches | 1 |
| Fibre Channel switches | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7789625 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cisco MDS Context triple: [Cisco UCS Director, supportsStoragePlatform, Cisco MDS]
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A.
Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) is Cisco’s integrated data center platform that combines computing, networking, and storage resources into a unified, centrally managed architecture for enterprise and cloud environments.
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B.
Cisco Nexus switches
Cisco Nexus switches are a family of high-performance, data center–class network switches designed by Cisco Systems for scalable, low-latency, and highly virtualized environments.
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C.
Symmetrix
Symmetrix is EMC Corporation’s flagship enterprise storage array family, known for high-end performance, reliability, and scalability in large data center environments.
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D.
Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director is a data center and cloud infrastructure management platform that automates provisioning, orchestration, and lifecycle management across Cisco UCS and related environments.
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E.
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI is Cisco’s software-defined networking (SDN) solution that provides centralized, policy-based automation and management for data center networks.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cisco MDS Target entity description: Cisco MDS is a family of Fibre Channel storage networking switches from Cisco designed for high-performance, scalable, and secure SAN environments in data centers.
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A.
Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) is Cisco’s integrated data center platform that combines computing, networking, and storage resources into a unified, centrally managed architecture for enterprise and cloud environments.
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B.
Cisco Nexus switches
Cisco Nexus switches are a family of high-performance, data center–class network switches designed by Cisco Systems for scalable, low-latency, and highly virtualized environments.
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C.
Symmetrix
Symmetrix is EMC Corporation’s flagship enterprise storage array family, known for high-end performance, reliability, and scalability in large data center environments.
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D.
Cisco UCS Director
Cisco UCS Director is a data center and cloud infrastructure management platform that automates provisioning, orchestration, and lifecycle management across Cisco UCS and related environments.
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E.
Cisco ACI
Cisco ACI is Cisco’s software-defined networking (SDN) solution that provides centralized, policy-based automation and management for data center networks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (82)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fibre Channel switch family
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storage networking product line ⓘ |
| category |
SAN switch
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data center networking equipment ⓘ storage networking hardware ⓘ |
| designedFor |
SAN environments
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data center environments ⓘ storage area networks ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
CLI management
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F-port trunking ⓘ FICON support on selected models ⓘ Fibre Channel over IP support ⓘ IP-based SAN extension ⓘ IVR ⓘ N-Port ID Virtualization ⓘ NPIV support ⓘ QoS ⓘ RADIUS authentication support ⓘ RBAC NERFINISHED ⓘ SAN analytics NERFINISHED ⓘ SNMP management ⓘ SPAN and RSPAN ⓘ TACACS+ authentication support ⓘ VSANs ⓘ advanced security features ⓘ call-home capability ⓘ fabric binding ⓘ fabric services ⓘ fabric-wide consistency checks ⓘ fabric-wide policy enforcement ⓘ hardware-based encryption ⓘ high availability ⓘ high performance switching ⓘ high scalability ⓘ intelligent fabric services ⓘ inter-VSAN routing ⓘ line-rate encryption on selected models ⓘ mainframe connectivity on selected models ⓘ non-disruptive software upgrades ⓘ port security features ⓘ port-channeling ⓘ quality of service ⓘ redundant components ⓘ role-based access control ⓘ role-based management ⓘ sFlow support ⓘ slow drain detection ⓘ storage virtualization services on selected models ⓘ telemetry ⓘ traffic engineering ⓘ virtual SANs ⓘ web-based management on selected models ⓘ zoning ⓘ |
| includesSeries |
Cisco MDS 9100 Series
NERFINISHED
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Cisco MDS 9200 Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Cisco MDS 9300 Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Cisco MDS 9500 Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Cisco MDS 9700 Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Cisco Data Center architecture
NERFINISHED
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Cisco Nexus switches NERFINISHED ⓘ Cisco UCS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Cisco Systems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| market |
cloud infrastructure providers
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enterprise data centers ⓘ service provider data centers ⓘ |
| runsOn | Cisco NX-OS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| softwarePlatform | Cisco NX-OS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol |
FCIP
NERFINISHED
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FCoE NERFINISHED ⓘ Fibre Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ Fibre Channel over Ethernet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsSpeed |
16 Gbps Fibre Channel on selected models
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2 Gbps Fibre Channel on older models ⓘ 32 Gbps Fibre Channel on newer models ⓘ 4 Gbps Fibre Channel on older models ⓘ 64 Gbps Fibre Channel on latest models ⓘ 8 Gbps Fibre Channel on selected models ⓘ |
| useCase |
disaster recovery SANs
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enterprise SAN fabrics ⓘ large-scale data center storage networks ⓘ mission-critical storage workloads ⓘ multisite SAN extension ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cisco MDS Description of subject: Cisco MDS is a family of Fibre Channel storage networking switches from Cisco designed for high-performance, scalable, and secure SAN environments in data centers.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cisco MDS storage networking switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco MDS 9000 Series
subject surface form:
Cisco NX-OS
this entity surface form:
Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches
this entity surface form:
Cisco MDS storage networking
this entity surface form:
Cisco MDS storage networking
this entity surface form:
Fibre Channel switches