Cisco Systems 9216 manual Product Overview

Send documentation comments to mdsfeedback-doc@cisco.com.

C H A P T E R 1

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 Cisco MDS 9216 Switch, refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide.

	Cisco MDS 9216 Switch Hardware Installation Guide
78-16165-01		1-1