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Product Overview

The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer directors and fabric switches offers 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 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. It includes the following sections:
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Hardware Overview

This section provides an overview of the following Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer directors and
fabric switches:
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OL-18084-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Hardware Overview, page 1-1
Cisco NX-OS Software Configuration, page 1-4
Cisco MDS 9500 Series multilayer directors
Cisco MDS 9513 multilayer director
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Cisco MDS 9509 multilayer director
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– Cisco MDS 9506 multilayer director
Cisco MDS 9200 Series fabric switches
Cisco MDS 9222i multilayer fabric switch
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Cisco MDS 9216i multilayer fabric switch
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Cisco MDS 9100 Series fixed configuration fabric switches
Cisco MDS 9134 multilayer switch
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Cisco MDS 9124 multilayer switch
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– Cisco Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem
– Cisco Fabric Switch for IBM BladeCenter
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
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