Overview Of Cisco Mds 9148T Fibre Channel Switch; Switch Overview - Cisco MDS 9148T Hardware Installation Manual

Overview of Cisco MDS 9148T Fibre Channel
Switch
The Cisco MDS 9148T switch has 48 x 4/8/16/32-Gbps multispeed ports and is a powerful and compact
1-rack unit (1RU) SAN fabric switch. This switch has the following major features:
• Provides consistent 32-Gbps quality performance for every Fibre Channel port on the switch.
• Provides availability and reliability similar to the previous generations of the Cisco MDS9000 Series
• Provides minimum configuration option of twenty four 32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports in the base variant,
• Supports enterprise-class features, such as Auto Zone, Smart Zoning, Slow Drain Detection and Isolation,
• Provides intelligent diagnostics tools such as Inter-Switch Link (ISL) diagnostics, HBA diagnostics with
• Supports the Virtual Machine Identifier (VMID) feature that provides visibility into virtual machines
• Supports Representational State Transfer (REST) and Cisco NX-API capabilities.
• Supports onboard hardware that protects the switch from malicious attacks by securing access to critical
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Switch Overview

Front View
The following figure shows the front view of a Cisco MDS 9148T Switch:
switches. Additionally, port-channel link members can be used across the three 16-port port groups
providing additional high availability.
which can be enabled in increments of 8 ports to up to 48 ports. This allows four possible configurations
of 24, 32, 40, and 48 ports.
Virtual SAN (VSAN) and Inter-VSAN routing (IVR), and migration from fabricwide Quality of Service
(QoS) from SAN islands to enterprisewide storage networks.
leading HBA vendors, read diagnostic parameters, protocol decoding, network analysis tools, and
integrated Cisco Call Home.
that are accessing the storage devices in the fabric.
components such as the bootloader, system image loader, and Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) interface.
Switch Overview, on page 5
Chassis Components, on page 8
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