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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 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. It includes the following sections:
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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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OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
Hardware Overview, page 1-1
Software Features, page 1-4
Tools for Software Configuration, page 1-14
Cisco MDS 9120 multilayer switches
Cisco MDS 9140 multilayer switches
Cisco MDS 9216 multilayer fabric switches.
Cisco MDS 9216A multilayer fabric switches
Cisco MDS 9216i multiprotocol fabric switches
Cisco MDS 9506 multilayer directors
Cisco MDS 9509 multilayer directors
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide
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