Cisco Mds 9124 Switch; Cisco Mds 9140 Switch - Cisco MDS9120 - MDS 9120 Multilayer Fabric Switch Installation Manual

Chapter 1 Product Overview
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m

Cisco MDS 9124 Switch

The Cisco MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch has a total of 24 1-, 2-, and 4-Gbps autosensing Fibre
Channel ports. The Cisco MDS 9124 Switch features On-Demand Port Licensing. You can activate
licensing in 8-port increments with each on-demand port activation license for up to a total of 24 ports.
By default, the first 8 ports are licensed. Two additional licenses are required to license all 24 ports. See
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Cisco MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch supports N port identifier virtualization (NPIV). NPIV can
assign multiple FC IDs to a single N port. This feature allows multiple applications on the N port to use
different identifiers and allows access control, zoning, and port security at the application level.

Cisco MDS 9140 Switch

The Cisco MDS 9140 Switch has a total of 40 1/2-Gbps autosensing, optionally configurable ports. The
first eight ports on the left-hand side are the bandwidth-optimized ports. They are delineated by a white
border. The remaining eight groups of four ports each are the host-optimized port groups. See
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Cisco MDS 9124 Switch
Cisco MDS 9140 Switch
Cisco MDS 9100 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches
Cisco MDS 9100 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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