Product Overview; Hardware Overview - Cisco DS-C9216I-K9 Configuration Manual

Product Overview

The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer directors and fabric switches offer intelligent
fabric-switching services that realize maximum performance while ensuring high reliability levels. They
combine robust and flexible hardware architecture with multiple layers of network and storage
management intelligence. This powerful combination enables highly available, scalable storage
networks that provide advanced security and unified management features.
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family provides intelligent networking features such as multiprotocol and
multitransport integration, virtual SANs (VSANs), advanced security, sophisticated debug analysis
tools, and unified SAN management.
This chapter lists the hardware features for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family and describes its software
features.
This chapter contains the following topics:
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Hardware Overview

This section provides an overview of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer directors and fabric
switches.
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Hardware Overview, page 1-1
Software Features, page 1-4
Tools for Software Configuration, page 1-10
Cisco MDS 9216 multilayer fabric switches contain one fixed integrated supervisor module with 16
Fibre Channel ports and an expansion slot which can support up to 32 additional ports (for a total
of 48 ports).
Cisco MDS 9509 multilayer directors contain two slots for supervisor modules and 7 slots for
switching or services modules providing up to 224 ports (32 ports x 7 slots).
Cisco MDS 9506 multilayer directors contain two slots for supervisor modules and 4 slots for
switching or services modules providing up to 128 ports (32 ports x 4 slots).
Cisco MDS 9140 multilayer switches contains 40 ports (8 full rate ports, 32 host-optimized ports).
Cisco MDS 9120 multilayer switches contains 20 ports (4 full rate ports, 16 host-optimized ports).
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Cisco MDS 9000 Fabric Manager Switch Configuration Guide
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