#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we're talking with Cisco Product Marketing Manager Prashant Jain, about MDS for Small to Cloud-Scale Data Centers. Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja) moderates and Patrick Swackhammer is this week's Cisco Champion guest host.

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Cisco SME
Prashant Jain, Cisco Product Marketing Manager

Cisco Champion
Patrick Swackhammer, @swackhap, Lead Systems Engineer

Highlights
New MDS products and solutions
How MDS family of switches can be integrated in an automated orchestrated way
Use cases for MDS
What is smartzoning
IO Accelerator

Transcript
gmitch64Are there any other differences, or is the 9148S just a 9148 that does 16G and drops 1G?
gmitch642G sorry
bwhaynesJust an FYI...see the SAN Innovation Announcement webcast for August 12th
gmitch64Will the new management features of the 9148S appear on the older 9148 switches? Is it just software, or is it ASIC specific?
CommsNinjaGood questions here-who else?
Guest 15When will Smart Zoning be on the Nexus 5ks? Have a lot of customers using N5ks for FC/FCoE but also some some 9500s/9700s as core but can't use it
LaurenFriedmanI had to step away a bit.... but have we discussed use cases?
prashantjain[email protected]
CommsNinjaGood question Lauren
gmitch64Didn't NX-OS come as a code branch from SAN-OS?
Guest 15Tech Note on smartzoning
bwhaynesA funky little question...Q: Do you have a favourite storage protocol(ie. FCoE, FCIP..)
Swack_@bwhaynes
gmitch64FC rules...
Guest 15some more good info on it -MDS 9100 Series PDF
gmitch64poific
Guest 15What kind of adoption rate is Cisco seeing with FCoE? We try to push this a lot but run into political issues between LAN/SAN teams
chris_nickli've done a few FCoE installs, and so have my other PS colleagues
Guest 15we have done a fair amount as well but could be doing a lot more if SAN/LAN teams played nice
WackoRobieI missed the answer on the SmartZoning in mixed MDS/Nexus realm.
chris_nicklalthough these are typically either greenfield, or new solutions being added in and using that as the catalyst for FCoE
prashantjainCatalyst 6500 Series
bwhaynesare terabytes now old school and petabytes are now the unit d'jour? How big are data centres getting these days?
gmitch64Out here in the Midwest, I've still not seen any FCoE deployments -on a small smaple I admit
chris_nicklTB is still pretty standard, but i am seeing more PB showing in the larger environments.
gmitch64I think TBs are still the norm... we went from 20TB to 50TB a couple of years ago... we're upgrading to allow expansion to 400TB
Swack_wow
gmitch64of course, I have 80TB in my basement at home
chris_nicklnow i will say for anybody in the US, you'd be amazed at the number of Petabytes the DoD branches are using... in fact there are exabytes in some case
Swack_serious gmitch?
WackoRobieWe are FCOE and we pushing a PB.
CommsNinjaYou can buy that at the grocery store these days. Insane!
gmitch64@chris and how much does the NSA have in Utah?
bwhaynesI cant wait until we get to yottabytes (did Jim Henson create that?)
gmitch64@swack Oh, I am serious
gmitch64quicky puts phone on mute...
prashantjainHCSC
prashantjainMolina
gmitch64Good call today... learned about smart zoning.. never heard of it before.
ciscokimaNicely done, all.