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QuickSpecs

Cisco MDS 9216A Multilayer Fabric Switch

Product Highlights

Cisco MDS 9216A	Supports from 16 to 64 Auto-Sensing 10/4/2/1-Gb Auto-Sensing Fibre Channel ports and up to 8 1-
Multilayer Fabric Switch Gb Ethernet ports (user configurable for iSCSI or FCIP) in a single switch.
Network-based Intelligent	Data replication
Storage Applications	Network assisted Back-up
Security	Supports role-based access control, VSANs, hardware-enforced Zoning, FC-SP, ACLs, RADIUS
	authentication, SNMPv3, SSH, and SFTP.
Intelligent network	Virtual SANs (VSANs)
services	PortChannels
	Quality of Service (QoS)
	Security
	Embedded Diagnostics
High Availability	Full redundancy of all major components for a new standard in Fabric Switch availability.
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
Embedded Diagnostics	Provides industry-first intelligent diagnostics, including Fibre Channel ping and trace route, SPAN,
	protocol analysis and decoding, Zone and VSAN merge analysis.
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.
Access Control Lists	Hardware-based intelligent frame processing.
(ACLs)
Traffic management	Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC)
	Fabric-wide QoS

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