A–Specifications
Modular Scalability
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Modular Scalability

Table A-4. Modular Scalability

Ports per Chassis........................... 16 to 128 SFP ports
4 to 32 X2 ports
Full blade intermix support, maximum 8
I/O blades, all blades hot-pluggable
>475,000 user ports depending on
configuration
Ports Per Rack ............................... Up to 1,280 ports per 42U rack
Chassis HyperStack....................... Supports high bandwidth interconnections
between two Model 9200 switches using
the HyperStack license and HyperStack
cables.
Multi-switch Fabrics........................ Supports all topologies, including:
stack, cascade, cascaded loop, and
mesh
Maximum 239 switches depending on
configuration
Fabric Port Types........................... All ports are universal, auto-discovering,
self-configuring and can assume the
following states:
F_Port; supports N_Port ID
Virtualization (NPIV)
FL_Port (public loop)
E_Port (switch-to-switch)
G_Port (generic)
GL_Port (generic loop)
Port Security................................... Port binding through a list of up to 32
WWPNs that are permitted to access the
port.
Port Statistics.................................. Configuration and operational data
Transmitted and received frame counts
Transmitted and received error counts