## SME 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.

• SME is a standards-based encryption solution for heterogeneous disks, tape libraries, and virtual tape libraries. SME is managed with Cisco DCNM-SAN and a command-line interface (CLI) for unified SAN management and security provisioning. Transparent Fabric Service

• Encryption

• SME Roles

• Key Management

• Clustering

• FC-Redirect

• Server-Based Discovery for Provisioning Disks and Tapes

• Target-Based Load Balancing