Cisco Mds 9148 Switch; Cisco Mds 9134 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 9148 Switch

The Cisco MDS 9148 Switch offers 48 autosensing 1-, 2-, 4-, and 8-Gbps Fibre Channel ports. On the
front panel, there are four 12-port groups that are connected to a crossbar and a central arbiter system,
which offer 1-, 2-, 4-, and 8-Gbps Fibre Channel ports. In addition, the Cisco MDS 9148 Switch offers
a CPU port and an Interlaken port for the network processor connectivity. The Cisco MDS 9148 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 48 ports. There are three pre-configured models of
the Cisco MDS 9148 Multilayer Fabric Switch available. These models enable 16, 32 or 48 ports. The
16 and 32 models can be upgraded up to 48 ports with the 8-port upgrade license. See
The Cisco MDS 9148 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.
In NPIV mode, the Cisco MDS 9148 switch supports F-Port Trunking (for VSANs) and F-Port
PortChannel (for ISLs). Additionally, the Cisco MDS 9148 switch also supports Cisco N-Port
Virtualization (NPV) to enable scaling of SANs without reaching Fibre Channel Domain ID limits.
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Cisco MDS 9134 Switch

The Cisco MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch has a total of 32 1-, 2-, and 4-Gbps autosensing Fibre
Channel ports, and 2 10-Gbps ports. The Cisco MDS 9134 Switch (see
Port activation licensing. By default, the first 24 ports are licensed. An additional license is required for
the remaining 8 ports. The 2 10-Gbps ports are not licensed by default. They require a separate license.
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