Compaq MDS 9216 manual Product Highlights

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Cisco MDS 9216 Multilayer Fabric Switch

Product Highlights

Cisco MDS 9216	Supports from 16 to 48 Auto-Sensing 2 / 1-Gb Auto-Sensing Fibre Channel ports and up to 8 1-Gb
Multilayer Fabric Switch Ethernet ports (user configurable for iSCSI or FCIP) in a single switch.
Network-based Intelligent	Virtualization
Storage Applications	Data replication
	Back-up
Security	Supports role-based access control, VSANs, hardware-enforced Zoning, FC-SP, ACLs,
	RADIUS authentication, SNMPv3, SSH, and SFTP.
Intelligent network	Virtual SANs (VSANs)
services	PortChannels
	Quality of Service (QoS)
	Security
	Embedded Diagnostics
High Availability	Full redundancy of all major components for availability.
Multiprotocol/	Enables a consistent feature set over a protocol agnostic switch fabric
Multitransport	Seamlessly integrates Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCIP in one system
	Allows integration of future storage protocols with its flexible architecture
Embedded Diagnostics	Provides industry-first intelligent diagnostics, including Fibre Channel ping and trace route, SPAN,
	protocol analysis and decoding, Zone and VSAN merge analysis, and integrated Call Home capability.
PortChannels	Allows users to aggregate up to 16 physical links into one logical bundle. The bundle can consist of any
	port in the chassis, ensuring that the bundle remains active in the event of a port, ASIC, or module
	failure. The bundle can sustain the failure of any physical link without causing a reset. Additionally,
	Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) multipathing provides the intelligence to load balance across up to 16
	equal cost paths and, in the event of a switch failure, to dynamically reroute traffic.
Access Control Lists	Hardware-based intelligent frame processing.
(ACLs)
Traffic management	Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC)
	Fabric-wide QoS
Management modes	Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Line Interface (CLI)
	Cisco Fabric Manager
	Integration with HP OpenView Storage Area Manager (SAM)
	Integration with Cisco Resource Manager Essentials (RME)

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