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Cisco MDS 9216 Switch Hardware Installation Guide
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Product Overview
The Cisco MDS 9216 Multilayer Fabric Switch supports storage area network
(SAN) applications. It provides scalability, multi-transport capability, security
and an easy way to manage enterprise SANs. The Cisco MDS 9216 Switch shares
a consistent architecture with the Cisco MDS 9500 Series of multilayer directors,
making it an intelligent and flexible fabric switch.
The Cisco MDS 9216 Switch provides the following features:
•A supervisor module
•A 16-port or 32-port switching module with 1 Gbps / 2 Gbps auto-sensing
Fibre Channel (FC) ports, supporting up to 48 total ports
•An interface module providing local and remote management interfaces for
the supervisor module
•Modular, hot-swappable 8-port IP Storage Services module (IPS module)
•Redundant power supplies, fan modules, and system clocks
•Power and cooling management and environmental monitoring
•Port interfaces that support field-replaceable, hot-swappable small form
factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers
For information about how to configure the CiscoMDS 9216 Switch, refer to the
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide.