Cisco Cisco MDS 9500 Series Supervisor-2 Module Broschüre
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Brochure
The Cisco
®
MDS 9500 Series of Multilayer
Directors
Addressing the stringent requirements of virtualized data center storage environments
with high availability, scalability, intelligence, ease of management, and support for
seamless deployment of converged Fibre Channel (FC) and Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) Fabrics.
with high availability, scalability, intelligence, ease of management, and support for
seamless deployment of converged Fibre Channel (FC) and Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) Fabrics.
Figure 1. Cisco MDS 9500 Multilayer Directors
Cisco MDS 9500 Series Highlights
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Multiprotocol Architecture: The Cisco MDS 9500 Series of Multilayer Directors transparently integrate
Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), IBM Fiber Connectivity (FICON), Internet Small
Computer System Interface (iSCSI), and Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) in one system.
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1/2/4/8-Gbps and 10-Gbps Fibre Channel: The Cisco MDS 9513 Director natively integrates both
1/2/4/8-Gbps and 10-Gbps ports on the new 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules. With
50% higher bandwidth than 8-Gbps Fibre Channel, 10-Gbps mode offers high performance connectivity
suitable for Inter Switch Links (ISLs) and inter-data center connection over an optical infrastructure.
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10-Gbps Multihop FCoE: The Cisco MDS 9500 Series of Multilayer Directors support multihop FCoE,
extending convergence of SAN and LAN traffic from server access to network core while enabling
connectivity to existing Fibre Channel SANs. The Cisco MDS 9500 Series of Directors supports
extension of Fibre Channel SAN to devices that are connected using FCoE protocol over Ethernet,
thereby extending the rich capabilities of intelligent services to unified fabric deployments.
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1/2/4/8-Gbps and 10-Gbps FICON: The Cisco MDS 9500 Multilayer Directors support advanced FICON
services including cascaded FICON fabrics, VSAN-enabled intermix of mainframe and open systems
environments, and N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) for mainframe Linux partitions. Cisco Control Unit Port
(CUP) support enables in-band management of Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches from the mainframe
management console.