Cisco Systems MDS 9500 Series manual Product Overview

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Product Overview

The Cisco MDS 9500 Multilayer Director elevates the standard for director-class switches. Providing industry-leading availability, scalability, security, and management, the Cisco MDS 9500 Series allows deployment of high-performance SANs with lowest total cost of ownership. Layering a rich set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-agnostic switch fabric, the Cisco MDS 9500 Series of Multilayer Directors addresses the stringent requirements of large data-center storage environments: uncompromisingly high availability, security, scalability, ease of management, and transparent integration of new technologies.

The Cisco MDS 9500 Series includes the Cisco MDS 9513 Director, the Cisco MDS 9509 Director, and the Cisco MDS 9506 Director, which all provide the following high availability features:

•Redundant Supervisor-2 modules with associated external crossbar modules for the Cisco MDS 9513 Director.

•Redundant Supervisor-2 modules with associated integrated crossbar modules for the Cisco MDS 9509 and 9506 Directors.

•Redundant Supervisor-1 modules with dual switching fabrics for the Cisco MDS 9509 and 9506 Directors.

•Optional hot-swappable switching or services modules.

•Switching module port interfaces that support field-replaceable, hot-swappable, form-factor pluggable X2 transceivers.

•Switching module port interfaces that support field-replaceable, hot-swappable, small form-factor pluggable (SFP) and Enhanced small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) transceivers.

•Redundant and hot-swappable power supplies and fan modules.

•Power and cooling management and environmental monitoring.

•Nondisruptive code load and activation.

•Redundant and self-monitoring system clocks.

For more information about high availability features, redundant supervisor operation, and how to configure the Cisco MDS 9500 Series, see the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide and the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.

The Cisco MDS 9500 Series supports the following hot-swappable, field-replaceable modules:

•48-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9248-96K9)

•24-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9224-96K9)

•4/44-port 8-Gbps Host-Optimized Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9248-48K9)

Cisco MDS 9500 Series Hardware Installation Guide

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