Cisco MDS 9124 Specifications

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Switch Portfolio
Cisco MDS 9000 family fabric switches are cost-effective, highly scalable, easy-to-install,
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and highly configurable Fibre Channel switches that are ideal for small to medium-sized
businesses (SMBs) and departmental and remote branch offices needing intelligent
storage area networks (SANs).
With deployment options ranging from stand-alone, top-of-the rack, and blade switches
for IBM BladeCenter and HP c-Class BladeSystem, the Cisco MDS 9100 Series Multilayer
Fabric Switches provide customers with exceptional flexibility, while maintaining consistent
feature sets and management capabilities.
In addition, the Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch offers customers a modular
yet highly compact form factor solution that provides an optimized platform for deploying
high-performance SAN extension solutions, distributed intelligent fabric services, and
cost-effective multiprotocol connectivity for both open and mainframe environments. With
the Cisco MDS 9222i expansion slot, enterprise customers with Cisco MDS 9000 family
director-class solutions can maximize existing investments and extend the capabilities of
their core infrastructure into the fabric space.
Figure 1 shows the Cisco MDS 9000 family multilayer fabric switches.
Figure 1. Cisco MDS 9000 Family Multilayer Fabric Switches
Cisco MDS 9124
Cisco MDS 9134
Product Family Highlights
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The Cisco MDS 9000 family fabric switches consist of the following:
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Cisco MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch: 24-port Fibre Channel 4-Gbps full-fabric
switch; supports VSANs and PortChannels
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Cisco MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch: 32-port Fibre Channel 4-Gbps full-fabric switch
with 2 ports of standard 10-Gbps Fibre Channel for uplinks or stacking; supports VSANs,
PortChannels, and IBM Fibre Connector (FICON)
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Cisco MDS 9124 blade switches:
Cisco MDS 9222i
Cisco Switch Module Cisco MDS 9124e
for IBM BladeCenter HP Blade Switch
· Cisco MDS IBM Blade Switch: Cisco 4-Gbps 10-port and 20-port Fibre Channel switch
modules for IBM BladeCenter, BladeCenter T, and BladeCenter H
· Cisco MDS HP Blade Switch: Cisco MDS 9124e 12-port and 24-port fabric switches for
HP c-Class BladeSystem
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Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch: Flexible platform for up to 66 ports of 4-Gbps
Fibre Channel and 4 ports of Gigabit Ethernet; multiprotocol support for Fibre Channel,
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), Small Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI), and FICON;
and capability to support Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME) natively and the Cisco
Data Migration Manager (DMM) with the addition of a storage services module (SSM)
Benefits of Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Switches
The Cisco MDS 9000 family fabric switch portfolio brings nearly all the benefits of Cisco
director-class solutions to an entirely new audience, with features such as the following:
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Cisco fabric switches provide more features than competing products and offer
the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for SMB and branch-office SAN deployments.
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Quick configuration wizard (on the Cisco MDS 9124 and 9134) simplifies and streamlines
the deployment process.
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Based on the same Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software platform as the industry-leading
Cisco director-class switches, the fabric switches offer many of the same features as
the director-class switches.
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The switches provide a consistent feature set end-to-end. Cisco Fabric Manager and
Cisco Device Manager are included in the price of the switch.
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Port licensing is enabled so that organizations can expand their deployments as they grow.
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SAN security is supported for authentication of devices on the fabric, and role-based
access control (RBAC) is provided to restrict management access.
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There are no hidden licenses to enable features. The Cisco MDS 9000 family fabric
switches support innovative Cisco features such as VSANs, PortChannels, quality of
service (QoS), SAN security, SAN management, hardware-enforced zoning, and Cisco In
Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) at no additional cost to the user.
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The Cisco MDS 9000 family Fibre Channel blade switch offers up to 20 or 24 autosensing
Fibre Channel ports capable of speeds of 4, 2, and 1 Gbps. The Cisco MDS 9000 family
Fibre Channel blade switches are designed to meet the performance and scalability
requirements of the most demanding environments and have the same features and
functions available as those on the Cisco MDS 9124 platform.
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The Cisco MDS 9222i provides SAN extension, disaster recovery, and business
continuance, offering cost effectiveness. The Cisco MDS 9222i also provides modularity,
allowing multiple blade options. This fabric switch also extends innovative features unique
to Cisco, such as the Cisco DMM for heterogeneous data migration from one storage
array to another and encryption of data sent through the fabric with Cisco SME.
At-A-Glance