Cisco Cisco MDS 9500 Series Supervisor-2 Module Hoja De Datos
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Figure 1. Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules
Cisco MDS 9000 Family 48-Port 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Module
Cisco MDS 9000 Family 32-Port 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Module
Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules provide up to 528 ports with an
aggregate bandwidth of 8.4 terabits per second (Tbps). 8-Gbps Advanced modules enable you to consolidate SAN
deployments with fewer hardware components, consolidate workloads from hundreds of virtual machines with
unparalleled performance, and scale with incremental updates as your SAN grows while protecting your existing
investment. Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules also provide Cisco
VMpath technology, which enables advanced virtual machine-aware SAN provisioning and monitoring for
virtualized data centers. With Cisco VMpath, you can monitor, manage, and control SAN resource allocation and
performance on a per-virtual machine basis and map out paths all the way from the server to storage, enabling
tracking of mission-critical workloads end-to-end.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules are hot-swappable and compatible with
1/2/4/8- and 10-Gbps interfaces, and they support hot-swappable Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+)
transceivers. Individual ports can be configured with Cisco 8- and 10-Gbps shortwave or longwave SFP+
transceivers. Each port supports 500 buffer credits for exceptional extensibility without requiring additional
licensing. With the Cisco Enterprise Package, up to 4095 buffer credits can be allocated to an individual port,
enabling full link bandwidth over long distances with no degradation in link utilization.
The 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules continue to provide previously available features
such as - predictable performance and high availability, advanced traffic management capabilities, integrated
VSANs and IVR, resilient high-performance ISLs, intelligent fabric services, advanced IBM Fibre Connection
(FICON) services, comprehensive security frameworks, fault detection and isolation of errored packets, and
sophisticated diagnostics.