Cisco Cisco MDS 9500 Series Supervisor-2 Module Hoja De Datos

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Product Highlights

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Cisco FlexSpeed: Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules are equipped

with Cisco FlexSpeed technology, which enables ports on the Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre

Channel Switching Modules to be configured as either 1/2/4/8-Gbps or 10-Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces.

10-Gbps interfaces enable reduced cabling for ISLs because they provide a 50 percent higher data rate

than 8-Gbps interfaces. With integrated Cisco TrustSec

encryption, the 10-Gbps links provide secure,

high-performance native Fibre Channel SAN Extension. Both 32- and 48-port modules support up to 24 10-

Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces, which enables consolidation of 1/2/4/8-Gbps and 10-Gbps ports into the

same Fibre Channel switching module, thereby conserving space on the Cisco MDS 9000 Family chassis.

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Arbitrated Local Switching: Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules

provide line-rate switching across all the ports on the same module without performance degradation or

increased latency for traffic exchanged with other modules in the chassis. This capability is achieved

through Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors crossbar architecture with a central arbiter arbitrating

fairly between local traffic and traffic to and from other modules. Local switching can be enabled on any

Cisco MDS 9500 Series director-class chassis.

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Integrated Hardware-Based VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR): Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced

Fibre Channel Switching Modules enable deployment of large-scale consolidated SANs while maintaining

security and isolation between applications. Integration into port-level hardware allows any port or any

virtual machine in a system or fabric to be partitioned into any VSAN. Integrated hardware-based IVR

provides line-rate routing between any ports in a system or fabric without the need for external routing

appliances.

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Resilient High-Performance ISLs: Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules

support high-performance ISLs consisting of 8- or 10-Gbps secure Fibre Channel. Advanced Fibre Channel

switching modules also offer PortChannel technology, with up to 16 links spanning any port on any module

within a chassis grouped into a logical link for added scalability and resilience. Up to 4095 buffer-to-buffer

credits can be assigned to single Fibre Channel port, providing industry-leading extension of storage

networks up to 4000 km at 2 Gbps, 2000 km at 4 Gbps, 1000 km at 8 Gbps, or 680 km at 10 Gbps while

maintaining full link bandwidth.

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Intelligent Fabric Services: Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules provide

integrated support for VSAN technology, Cisco TrustSec encryption, access control lists (ACLs) for

hardware-based intelligent frame processing, and advanced traffic-management features to enable

deployment of large scale enterprise storage networks. The 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching

modules provide Fibre Channel Redirect (FC-Redirect) technology, which is a distributed flow redirection

mechanism that can enable redirection of a set of traffic flows to an intelligent fabric service such as Cisco

MDS 9000 I/O Acceleration (IOA), Cisco Data Mobility Manager (DMM), and Storage Media Encryption

(SME).

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Advanced FICON Services: Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules

support 1/2/4/8-Gbps FICON environments, including cascaded FICON fabrics, VSAN-enabled intermix of

mainframe and open systems environments, and N-port ID virtualization (NPIV) for mainframe Linux

partitions. FICON Control Unit Port (CUP) support enables in-band management of Cisco MDS 9000

Family switches from the mainframe management console.