Cisco Systems MDS 9500 Series manual Port Fibre Channel Advanced Services Module

Chapter 1 Product Overview

Services Modules

Se n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a ck - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m .

32-Port Fibre Channel Advanced Services Module

The Cisco MDS 9000 Family 32-port Fibre Channel Advanced Services Module (ASM) enables pooling of heterogeneous storage for increased storage utilization, simplified storage management, and reduced total cost of storage ownership. The ASM incorporates all the capabilities of the Cisco MDS 9000 DS-X9032 Fibre Channel switching module and also provides scalable, in-band storage virtualization services. The module makes it possible to allocate bandwidth optimally.

The Fibre Channel port interfaces support hot-swappable Fibre Channel SFP transceivers, which can be short wavelength (SWL) for connectivity up to 500 meters (1640 feet), or long wavelength (LWL) for connectivity up to 10 km (6.2 miles). All interfaces are autosensing 1-Gbps or 2-Gbps compatible. The port interfaces also support coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (CWDM) SFP transceivers, which can be used for extended long wavelength (ELWL) transmission or for CWDM. See the “Supported Transceivers” section on page 1-55.

Note Cisco MDS 9509 and 9506 Directors running Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.2(2a) to Release 2.1(x) support the Fibre Channel ASM. The Cisco MDS 9513 Director does not support the ASM.

Figure 1-31shows the Fibre Channel ASM.

Figure 1-31 Fibre Channel ASM

2

DS-X9032

4

17 20

5 8

21 24

9 12

25 28

13 16

29 32 94298

	1	3
				4
1	Status LED		3	Link and Speed LEDs
2	1-Gbps/2-Gbps Fibre Channel port		4	Asset tag
	group

Each module draws power from the 42 V supplied on the backplane with local DC/DC power converters and regulators.

The control processor on the module provides power-on, offline, and online diagnostics. The control processor can be used to configure devices on the switching module and to gather statistical data from each port.

The control processor monitors the DC/DC power source and temperature. The control processor signals the supervisor module and displays an alarm on its front panel when a problem is detected.

The front panel on the services module provides basic status information, such as power-on, self-test running, self-test passed, alarm, and ready.

The binary image for the services module is downloaded from the supervisor module. Prior to the image download, the control processor on the switching module runs from code stored on its local CompactFlash card. The image for an ASM can be specified using the ASM-SFN boot variable. For details on how to specify the ASM-SFN boot variable, see the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide.

	Cisco MDS 9500 Series Hardware Installation Guide
1-48	OL-17467-02