Chapter 1 Product Overview

Chassis

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Cisco MDS 9513 Director

The Cisco MDS 9513 Director is a 13-slot Fibre Channel switch. The front panel consists of 13 horizontal slots, where slots 1 to 6 and slots 9 to 13 are reserved for switching and services modules only, and slots 7 and 8 are for Supervisor-2 modules only. A variable speed fan tray, with 15 individual fans, is located on the front left panel of the chassis.

The Cisco MDS 9513 Director uses a midplane. Modules exist on both sides of the plane. (See Figure 1-1.) The Cisco MDS 9513 Director supports the following:

Two Supervisor-2 modules that reside in slots 7 and 8.

Switching and storage services modules. (See the “Port Index Availability” section on page 1-28for possible configurations.)

One hot-swappable front panel fan tray with redundant individual fans.

Two power supplies located at the rear of the chassis. The power supplies are redundant by default and can be configured to be combined if desired.

Two crossbar modules located at the rear of the chassis.

One hot-swappable fan module for the crossbar modules located at the rear of the chassis.

Two hot-swappable clock modules located at the rear of the chassis.

Note The Cisco MDS 9513 Director does not support the Advanced Services Module (ASM) or the Caching Services Module (CSM).

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