QuickSpecs
Cisco MDS 9216 Multilayer Fabric Switch
Product Highlights
Cisco MDS 9216 | Supports from 16 to 48 |
Multilayer Fabric Switch Ethernet ports (user configurable for iSCSI or FCIP) in a single switch. | |
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Storage Applications | Data replication |
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Security | Supports |
| RADIUS authentication, SNMPv3, SSH, and SFTP. |
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Intelligent network | Virtual SANs (VSANs) |
services | PortChannels |
| Quality of Service (QoS) |
| Security |
| Embedded Diagnostics |
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High Availability | Full redundancy of all major components for availability. |
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Multiprotocol/ | Enables a consistent feature set over a protocol agnostic switch fabric |
Multitransport | Seamlessly integrates Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCIP in one system |
| Allows integration of future storage protocols with its flexible architecture |
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Embedded Diagnostics | Provides |
| protocol analysis and decoding, Zone and VSAN merge analysis, and integrated Call Home capability. |
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PortChannels | Allows users to aggregate up to 16 physical links into one logical bundle. The bundle can consist of any |
| port in the chassis, ensuring that the bundle remains active in the event of a port, ASIC, or module |
| failure. The bundle can sustain the failure of any physical link without causing a reset. Additionally, |
| Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) multipathing provides the intelligence to load balance across up to 16 |
| equal cost paths and, in the event of a switch failure, to dynamically reroute traffic. |
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Access Control Lists | |
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Traffic management | Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC) |
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Management modes | Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Line Interface (CLI) |
| Cisco Fabric Manager |
| Integration with HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM) |
| Integration with Cisco Resource Manager Essentials (RME) |
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