Chapter 1 Product Overview
32 Port Fibre Channel Advanced Services Module
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32 Port Fibre Channel Advanced Services Module
The 32 Port Fibre Channel Advanced Services Module (ASM) for the
Cisco MDS 9000 Family supports up to 32 Fibre Channel ports and provides distributed intelligent storage services such as network-based volume management and copy services, and is virtualization enabled. The module makes it possible to allocate bandwidth optimally and delivers the industry’s highest line-card port density, along with 32 Gbps of total bandwidth.
Note The ASM module is supported for switches running Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.2(2a) or later.
The Fibre Channel port interfaces support hot-swappable Fibre Channel SFP transceivers, which can be short wavelength (SWL) for connectivity up to 500m, or long wavelength (LWL) for connectivity up to 10km. All interfaces are auto-sensing 1/2 Gbps compatible. The port interfaces also support coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (CWDM) SFP transceivers, which can be used for extended long wavelength (EWL) transmission or for coarse wavelength-divisionmultiplexing (CWDM). For more information about SFP transceivers, see Supported SFP Transceivers, page 1-21.
Tip For a full 2-Gbps bandwidth between two hosts, connect one host to the first port group and connect the second host to the second port group.
Figure 1-6shows the Fibre Channel Advanced Services Module, with the part number “DS-X9032-SMV” on the left side.
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