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Software Features
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These multilayer directors have the following features:
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Refer to the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Hardware Installation Guide.
Software Features
This section provides an overview of the major software features of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of
multilayer directors and fabric switches.
Licensing
The licensing functionality is available in all switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. This functionality
allows you to access specified premium features on the switch after you install the appropriate license
for that feature.
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High Availability
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series supports application restartability and nondisruptive supervisor
switchability. The switches are protected from system failure by redundant hardware components and a
high availability software framework. The high availability (HA) software framework includes the
following:
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide
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Two redundant, hot-swappable power supplies have AC or DC connection, each of which can supply
power to the entire chassis.
Two supervisor modules ensure high availability and traffic load balancing capabilities. Each
supervisor module can control the entire switch. The standby supervisor module provides
redundancy in case the active supervisor module fails.
The 1-Gbps or 2-Gbps autosensing Fibre Channel ports support Inter-Switch Links (E ports),
Extended Inter-Switch Links (TE ports), loops (FL and TL ports), and fabric (F ports) connectivity.
Besides Telnet access, a 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port provides switch access and an RS-232 serial
port allows switch configuration.
Hot-swappable, small form-factor pluggable (SFP) ports can be configured with either short or long
wavelength SFPs for connectivity up to 500 m and 10 km, respectively.
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series switches support the IP Storage Services (IPS) module and the
14/2-port Multiprotocol Services (MPS-14/2) module. Both modules are configurable for both FCIP
and iSCSI operation on a port-by-port basis. Ports configured for FCIP operation can be further
configured to support up to three virtual ISL connections. FICON is supported on the MPS-14/2
module and functions with all the IPS features on this module, including IPsec and hardware
compression.
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series switches support the 32-port Fibre Channel Storage Services Module
(SSM). The SSM enables pooling of heterogeneous storage for increased storage utilization,
simplified storage management, and reduced total cost of storage ownership.
Chapter 3, "Obtaining and Installing Licenses."
Provides stateful redundancy for supervisor module failure by using dual supervisor modules.
Ensures nondisruptive software upgrade capability.
Chapter 1
Product Overview
OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
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