QuickSpecs

Cisco MDS 9216A Multilayer Fabric Switch

Technical Specifications

Buffer credits:

Up to 255 per port

Ports per chassis:

 

 

16 to 64, 10/4/2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel ports, up to eight 1-Gbps Ethernet ports

 

 

Ports per rack:

 

 

 

Up to 896

 

 

 

PortChannel:

 

 

 

Up to sixteen ports

Cards, ports, slots

Base:

16 fixed auto-sensing 2/1-Gbps Fibre Channel ports

 

 

Expansion:

1 empty expansion slot

Network Management

Access methods

 

 

 

Out-of-band 10/100 Ethernet port

 

 

RS-232 serial console port

 

 

In-band IP-over-Fibre Channel

 

 

DB-9 COM port

 

 

 

Access protocols

 

 

 

CLI-via console and Ethernet ports

 

 

SNMPv3-via Ethernet port and in-band IP-over-Fibre Channel access

 

 

Distributed Device Alias service

 

 

Network security

 

 

 

Per-VSAN role-based access control using RADIUS and TACACS+ based authentication,

 

 

authorization, and accounting (AAA) functions

 

 

SFTP

 

 

 

SSH v2 implementing AES

 

 

SNMPv3 implementing AES

 

 

Management applications

 

 

Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI

 

 

Cisco Fabric Manager

 

 

Cisco Device Manager

 

 

CiscoWorks 2000 Resource Manager Essentials

Reliability and Availability

Hot-swappable, 1+1 redundant power supplies

 

 

Hot-swappable fan tray with integrated temperature and power management

 

 

Hot-swappable SFP optics

 

 

Hot-swappable switching module

 

 

Stateful process restart

 

 

Any module, any port configuration for PortChannels

 

 

Fabric-based multipathing

 

 

Per-VSAN fabric services

 

 

Passive backplane

 

 

 

Online diagnostics

 

Programming Interfaces

Scriptable CLI

 

 

 

Fabric Manager GUI

 

 

 

Device Manager GUI

Approvals and

Safety compliance

 

Compliance

CE Marking

 

 

 

UL 60950

 

 

 

CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950

 

 

EN 60950

 

 

 

IEC 60950

 

 

 

TS 001

 

 

 

AS/NZS 3260

 

 

 

 

 

DA - 12122 Canada — Version 8 — February 22, 2008

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