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At-A-Glance
Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps 
Advanced Fibre Channel Switching 
Modules
Features and Benefits 
Feature:   Cisco FlexSpeed—Enables a port to be 
configured as either 1/2/4/8-Gbps or 10-Gbps 
Fibre Channel interface.
Benefit:    10-Gbps interfaces enable reduced cabling for 
ISLs as they provide 50 percent higher data rate 
than 8-Gbps interfaces and enable consolidation 
of 1/2/4/8-Gbps and 10-Gbps ports into the 
same switching module for high-performance 
SAN Extension and consolidation. With integrated 
Cisco TrustSec® encryption, the 10-Gbps links 
provide secure, high-performance native Fibre 
Channel SAN Extension.
Feature:   Arbitrated Local Switching—Line-rate switching 
performance across all ports on the same 
module without affecting performance or 
latency of traffic exchanged with other 
modules in the chassis.
Benefit:    High-performance local switching that can be 
deployed on any MDS 9500 Family Director 
Class chassis protects investment and 
provides line-rate switching performance for 
locally switched traffic without compromising 
performance for traffic exchanged with other 
modules.
Feature:   Cisco VMpath technology—Advanced Virtual 
Machine aware path management.
Benefit:    Simplify the management of virtual 
infrastructure by managing end-to-end path 
through physical out to virtual network across 
the whole data center environment. 
Feature:   Intelligent fabric services—Integrated support for 
VSAN technology, Cisco TrustSec encryption, 
hardware based intelligent frame processing, 
and advance traffic management features.
Benefit:    Enable consolidation of SAN islands to high 
scalable and secure enterprise-wide storage 
networks. 
Feature:   Resilient inter-switch links (ISLs)—Support up to 
sixteen links in a single PortChannel; links can 
span any port on any module within a chassis.
Benefit:    Added scalability and resilience.
Feature:   Advanced FICON services—Supports 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 for mainframe 
Linux partitions.
Benefit:    Enables ease of FICON integration and 
management. 
Feature:   Comprehensive security framework—Supports 
RADIUS and TACACS+, Fibre Channel Security 
Protocol (FC-SP), Secure File Transfer Protocol 
(SFTP), Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol, and 
Simple Network Management Protocol Version 
3 (SNMPv3) implementing Advanced Encryption 
Standard (AES), VSANs, hardware-enforced 
zoning, ACLs, and per-VSAN role-based 
access control.
Benefit:   Enables end-to-end security.
Feature:   Sophisticated diagnostics—Provides intelligent 
diagnostics, protocol decoding, and network 
analysis tools as well as integrated Call Home 
capability.
Benefit:    Added reliability, faster problem resolution, and 
reduced service costs. 
Powered by Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS 
Software 
The underlying system software for the Cisco MDS 9000 
Family Multilayer Switches, Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS 
Software 5.2 is designed for SANs to create a strategic 
SAN platform with superior reliability, performance, 
scalability, and features. In addition to providing all the 
essentials you expect in a storage network switch, it 
provides many unique features to help deliver low TCO 
and a quick return on investment. 
Management 
Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) is an 
easy-to-use Java application with GUIs that provide an 
integrated approach to SAN and LAN administration for 
ease of management in Fibre Channel SAN and unified 
fabric deployments. Cisco DCNM offers fabric-wide 
management capabilities including discovery, multiple 
switch configurations, real-time network monitoring, 
and historical performance monitoring for network 
traffic hotspot analysis and troubleshooting. Cisco 
VMpath technology provides provisioning, monitoring, 
and management of unified fabric resources on a per 
virtual machine basis enabling tracking of mission critical 
workloads end-to-end. This powerful approach greatly 
reduces switch setup times, increases overall reliability, 
and provides extensive diagnostics for resolving 
configuration inconsistencies.
For More Information 
For more information about the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 
8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules, 
visit: 
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