Product Overview - Cisco MDS 9132T Installation Manual

Product Overview

The Cisco MDS 9132T 32-Gbps 32-Port Fibre Channel Switch is a powerful compact one rack-unit (1RU)
SAN fabric switch. This device has the following major features:
• 32x32-Gbps full line rate Fibre Channel ports.
• Pluggable and modular Linecard Expansion Module (LEM) which can be inserted and removed as a
Field Replaceable Unit (FRU).
• Redundant hot-swappable power supplies and fan modules.
• Enterprise class features such as In-Service Software Upgrades (ISSU), Virtual SANs (VSANs),
Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), Security features, and quality of service (QoS).
• Extensive diagnostics such as self-test (GOLD - Generic OnLine Diagnostics), link test (ISL and F-port
link diagnostics) and peer port-statistics querying (RDP - Read Diagnostic Parameters).
Chassis Components
Front View
The following figure shows the front view of the Cisco MDS 9132T Switch:
Figure 1: Front View of the Cisco MDS 9132T Switch
1 Serial console port
C H A P T E R
7 Fixed FC ports
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