Техническая Спецификация для Cisco Cisco MDS 9700 48-Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module

 

 

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Data Sheet 

Cisco MDS 9700 48-Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel 
Switching Module 

Product Overview 

Enable convergence, scalability, and intelligence in large, virtualized data centers with the Cisco

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 MDS 9700 48-

Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module. With industry-leading port densities of line-rate 16-Gbps Fibre 

Channel ports per director chassis, intelligent fabric services such as integrated VSANs, Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), 

and PortChannels, the Cisco MDS 9700 48-Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module (Figure 1) enables 

deployment of large, scalable, and virtualized data centers. 

The Cisco MDS 9700 48-Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module is designed for the most demanding 

storage networking environments. It delivers full-duplex aggregate performance of 768 Gbps, making it well suited 

for high-speed 16-Gbps storage subsystems, 16-Gbps Inter-Switch Links (ISLs), and high-performance virtualized 

servers. 

Figure 1.    Cisco MDS 9700 48-Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module 

 

The Cisco MDS 9700 48-Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module enables you to consolidate SAN 

deployments with fewer hardware components. You can consolidate workloads from hundreds of virtual machines 

with high performance, and scale with incremental updates as your SAN grows - all while protecting your existing 

investment. The Cisco MDS 9700 48-Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module also provides Cisco VMpath 

technology that 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 paths all the way from the server to storage enabling end-to-end tracking of 

mission-critical workloads. 

The Cisco MDS 9700 48-Port 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module is hot swappable and compatible with 

2/4/8-Gbps, 4/8/16-Gbps, and 10-Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces and supports hot-swappable Enhanced Small 

Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) transceivers. It also supports 10 Gigabit Ethernet clocked optics carrying 10-Gbps 

Fibre Channel traffic. Individual ports can be configured with Cisco 16-Gbps, 8-Gbps, or 10-Gbps SFP+ 

transceivers. Each port supports 500 buffer credits for exceptional extensibility without requiring additional 

licensing. With the Cisco Enterprise Package license, 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.