Each Supervisor-2 Module provides the necessary crossbar bandwidth to deliver full system performance in the Cisco MDS 9506 director with up to four Fibre Channel switching modules. It is designed to eliminate the impact on system performance of the loss or removal of a single crossbar module.
Connectivity, compatibility and traffic
management
The Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage requires a minimum of one and allows a maximum of four switching modules. These modules are available in either a 12-, 24- and 48-port 4 Gbps configurations, allowing the Cisco MDS 9506 to support 12 to 192 Fibre Channel ports per chassis. Optionally, a 4-port 10 Gbps Fibre Channel module is available for high performance inter- switch link (ISL) connections over metro optical networks.
Switching modules are hot-swappable with small form-factor pluggable (SFP) optic transceivers and support LC inter- faces. The PortChannel capability allows users to aggregate up to
16 physical Inter-Switch Links into a single logical bundle, providing opti- mized bandwidth utilization across all links.
12-, 24- and 48-port switching modules:
Configuring the switch for the application
environment
switching module is designed to deliver high performance for the most demanding storage networking applica- tions. Autosensing 1, 2 and 4 Gbps ports deliver up 96 Gbps of continuous aggregate bandwidth, which provides up to 8 Gbps throughput per port. The 12-port switching module is well suited for attaching highest-performance
4 Gbps enabled servers and storage subsystems as well as to connect to other switches using 4 Gbps ISL connections.
The 24-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
switching module is designed for high performance storage networking applications. Twenty-four autosensing 1, 2 and 4 Gbps ports are designed deliver sustained bandwidth required to meet the performance requirements of enterprise-class storage and servers. Port bandwidth reservation enables
1, 2 or 4 Gbps switching bandwidth to be dedicated to a port, including high- est performance ISL ports. The 24-port switching module is well suited for attaching high performance servers and storage subsystems as well as for con- necting to other switches using ISL connections.
The 48-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel
switching module is designed to deliver an optimal balance of perform- ance and port density. Forty-eight autosensing 1, 2 and 4 Gbps ports are designed deliver sustained bandwidth required to meet a wide range perform- ance requirements for a mixture of SMB
