About CFS
The Cisco MDS SAN-OS software uses the Cisco Fabric Services (CFS) infrastructure to enable efficient database distribution and to foster device flexibility. It simplifies SAN provisioning by automatically distributing configuration information to all switches in a fabric.
Several Cisco MDS SAN-OS applications use the CFS infrastructure to maintain and distribute the contents of a particular application's database.
Cisco Fabric Services (CFS) provides a common infrastructure for automatic configuration synchronization in the fabric. It provides the transport function as well as a rich set of common services to the applications. CFS has the ability to discover CFS capable switches in the fabric and discovering application capabilities in all CFS capable switches.
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