Cisco Systems MDS 9500 Series Supervisor-2 Modules

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Cisco MDS 9500 Series Hardware Installation Guide

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Chapter 1 Product Overview

Supervisor Modules

Supervisor-2 Modules

The Cisco MDS 9500 Series offers redundant, hot-swappable, Supervisor-2 modules. (See Figure 1-12.)

Supervisor-2 modules can be used in the Cisco MDS 9509 and 9506 Directors in slots 5 and 6.

Supervisor-2 modules must be used in slots 7 and 8 of the Cisco MDS 9513 Director.

Supervisor-2 modules provide an integrated crossbar switching fabric to connect all the switching

modules when used in a Cisco MDS 9509 or 9506 Director. Single fabric configurations provide

720-Gbps full duplex speed with 80-Gbps full duplex bandwidth per switching module. Dual fabric

configurations provide 1.4-Tbps speed with 160-Gbps full duplex bandwidth per switching module. This

integrated crossbar switching fabric is disabled when a Supervisor-2 module is installed in a Cisco MDS

9513 Director. The Cisco MDS 9513 Director supports two external crossbar modules located at the rear

of the chassis that handle this function. (For more information, see the “Crossbar Modules” section on

page 1-25.)

Figure 1-12 Cisco MDS 9500 Series Supervisor-2 Module

The main functions and components of the Supervisor-2 modules are as follows:

• Control and Management

• Processor

• Port Interfaces

• LEDs on the Supervisor-2 Module

1Status, System, Active, and Power

Management LEDs1

1. See Table 1-4 on page 1-20 for status LED descriptions.

6CompactFlash LED

2Reset button 7CompactFlash eject button

3Console port 8CompactFlash slot

4MGMT 10/100/1000 Ethernet port

(with integrated Link and Activity

LEDs)

9USB ports

5COM1 serial port

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