Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches

A 9-slot Multilayer Director. The modular chassis requires 2-slots for Supervisor Modules with 7-slots available for Switching Modules. The Supervisor Module consists of a Control Engine and an Integrated Crossbar.

A 6-slot Multilayer Director. The modular chassis requires 2-slots for Supervisor Modules with 4-slots available for Switching Modules. The Supervisor Module consists of a Control Engine and an Integrated Crossbar.

A 3-RU semi-modular Fabric Switch with sixteen (16) 1/2 Gbps auto-sensing Fibre Channel (FC) ports and an optional Switching Module or IP Storage Services Module.

An 8-port (8) Gigabit Ethernet IP Storage Services Module.

DC power supply for Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director.

AC Power Supply for MDS 9506 Director.

DC Power Supply for MDS 9506 Director.

AC power supply for Cisco MDS 9216 Fabric Switch.

16-port 1/2 Gbps auto-sensing FC Switching Module with SFP/LC connectors for Cisco MDS 9216 Fabric Switch and Cisco MDS 9500 series Directors.

32-port 1/2Gbps auto-sensing FC Switching Module with SFP/LC connectors for Cisco MDS 9216 Fabric Switch and Cisco MDS 9500 series Directors.

Cisco MDS 9500 series external 512 M CompactFlash for Supervisor Module.

SFP (LC type) for 1/2 Gbps FC for ShortWave (SW) mode.

SFP (LC type) for 1/2 Gbps FC for LongWave (LW) mode.

SFP (LC type) for 1 Gbps Ethernet and 1/2 Gbps FC for ShortWave (SW) mode.

SFP (LC type) for 1 Gbps Ethernet and 1/2 Gbps FC for LW mode.

Cisco MDS 9000 Port Analyzer Adapter for troubleshooting and analysis of FC traffic.

xxxx nm CWDM Gigabit Ethernet and 1/2 Gbps FC SFP/LC. Where xxxx = 1470 nm, 1490 nm, 1510 nm, 1530 nm, 1550 nm, 1570 nm, 1590 nm, 1610 nm

Add/Drop Multiplexer for 4 CWDM Wavelengths

Add/Drop Multiplexer for 8 CWDM Wavelengths

2 Slot Chassis for CWDM Add/Drop Multiplexer(s)

Please refer to:

http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sn5420-scsi

for a list of Cisco iSCSI software drivers supported by IP Services Module.

iSCSI target discovery based on "SendTargets" command executed in the discovery phase.

Map LUNs between FC Targets and virtual iSCSI Targets when configuring persistent mappings.

Zoning specification based on: (a) WWN of iSCSI Initiator (b) IQN of iSCSI Initiator (c) IP address of iSCSI Initiator. Zoning is enforced during iSCSI target discovery and session creation, and on a per-frame basis in hardware.

Access controls by explicitly configuring the allowed list of iSCSI Initiators that can connect to a iSCSI Targets that have been configured with persistent mapping. The ACLs configuration is based on: (a) IQN of iSCSI Initiator (b) IP address of iSCSI Initiator (c) Subnet of the iSCSI initiator.

CHAP based authentication of both iSCSI Initiator and target using a local database or a centralized RADIUS server.

FCIP links are configured as Virtual E-Ports (VE-Port), which behave exactly like standard FC E-Port, except that the transport in this case is FCIP instead of FC.

VSANs are carried over FCIP Link using Cisco's Enhanced Inter-Switch Link (EISL) over VE-Ports.

Exports a FC Target as virtual iSCSI Targets on multiple IP interfaces (paths). The interfaces can be on different IPS modules in a switch or IPS modules in different switches. The multipathing software on iSCSI Initiator can use these multiple paths either for load balancing and/or High-Availability.

Maps a pair of active and standby FC Targets to a single virtual iSCSI Target. When active FC Target fails, the traffic is transparently re-directed to standby FC Target.

VRRP based resiliency of iSCSI sessions and FCIP links that can span multiple IPS modules in a MDS 9000 switch or different MDS switches.

EtherChannel of 2-adjacent IPS ports for link level resiliency.

Interoperate with B-Port devices such as Cisco's FC Port Adapter (PA-FC-1G) and SN5428-2 Storage Router.

Up to three (3) VSAN-aware FCIP links per IPS port.

Bundling of multiple FCIP links in a PortChannel for increased bandwidth and resiliency.

TCP Parameters: (a) SACK (b) Window Management (c) Connection keep alive (d) Path MTU (PMTU) discovery (e) Initial Re-transmission timeout (f) Max number of re-transmissions.

Ability to configure jumbo frames on Gigabit Ethernet Ports with MTU of 9000 bytes.

Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) tag to mark all iSCSI/FCIP frames going over the IP network.

802.1q based VLANs tagging of Ethernet frames.

CDP protocol on IPS and Out-of-Band Ethernet Management port.

Using the "do" command, a user can execute an EXEC mode command from a configuration mode or submode prompt.

This release supports the following additional MIBs

CISCO-FCIP-MGMT-MIB

CISCO-ISCSI-MIB

CISCO-ISCSI-GW-MIB

CISCO-CDP-MIB

CISCO-FCIP-MGMT-EXT-MIB

CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB