QuickSpecs

Cisco MDS 9216A Multilayer Fabric Switch

Product Highlights

Management modes

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Line Interface (CLI)

 

Cisco Fabric Manager

 

Optional Cisco Fabric Manager Server

 

Integration with Cisco Resource Manager Essentials (RME)

 

 

Interoperability

Offers compatibility with a broad range of HP servers and operating systems, as well as disk and

 

tape storage devices

 

Shares common architectural platform across all Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors

 

Interchangeable modules across Directors and Fabric Switches

 

 

Product Family Models

Cisco MDS 9513 Multilayer Director- w/Dual Supervisor 2 -

 

Intelligent, multi-protocol 13-slot Director with up to 528 Auto-Sensing 4/2/1 Gb Fibre

 

Channel ports

 

Cisco MDS 9506 Multilayer Director

 

Intelligent, multi-protocol 6-slot Director with up to 192 Auto-Sensing 10/4/2/1 Gb Fibre

 

Channel ports

 

Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director

 

Intelligent, multi-protocol 9-slot Director with up to 336 Auto-Sensing 10/4/2/1 Gb Fibre

 

Channel ports

 

Cisco MDS 9222i Multilayer Fabric Switch

 

Intelligent, multi-protocol modular Fabric Switch with eighteen 4-Gb Fibre Channel ports,

 

four 1Gb Ethernet ports, a four port FCIP software license and an open modular expansion

 

slot with up to a forty-eight ports of 4-Gbps Fibre Channel or 10-Gb Fibre Channel ports

 

for Inter-Switch Links

 

Cisco MDS 9216A Multilayer Fabric Switch

 

Intelligent, multi-protocol modular Fabric Switch with sixteen 2Gb Fiber Channel ports, plus

 

one expansion slot with up to a total of 64 Auto-Sensing 10/4/2/1 Gb Fibre Channel ports

 

Cisco MDS 9216i Multilayer Fabric Switch

 

Intelligent, multi-protocol modular Fabric Switch with fourteen 2Gb Fiber Channel port and

 

two 1Gb Ethernet ports, plus one expansion slot with up to a total of 62 Auto-Sensing

 

10/4/2/1 Gb Fibre Channel ports

 

Cisco MDS 9120 Multilayer Fabric Switch

 

Intelligent, Fibre Channel Fabric Switch with 20 Auto-Sensing 2/1 Gb Fibre Channel ports

 

Cisco MDS 9140 Multilayer Fabric Switch

 

Intelligent, Fibre Channel Fabric Switch with 40 Auto-Sensing 2/1 Gb Fibre Channel ports

 

Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch

 

Fibre Channel fabric Switch with 20 Auto-Sensing 4/2/1 Gb Fibre Channel Ports

 

 

Software Components, Standard

SAN-OS

Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS delivers numerous advanced storage networking capabilities for the Cisco

 

MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Intelligent Directors and Fabric Switches.

 

 

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Cisco Systems MDS 9216A manual Software Components, Standard, Management modes, Interoperability, Product Family Models