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Product overview The next-generation Cisco® MDS 9396T 32-Gbps 96-Port 2-rack unit Fibre Channel Switch (Figure 1) provides high-speed Fibre Channel connectivity in the SAN. This switch offers state-of-art analytics and telemetry capability built into its next-generation Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) platform. The Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe)-ready switch allows seamless transition to Fibre Channel Non-Volatile Memory Express (FC-NVMe) workloads whenever available without any hardware upgrade in the SAN. This highdensity, highly reliable and scalable, enterprise class switch...

High performance: The MDS 9396T architecture, with centralized nonblocking arbitration, provides consistent 32-Gbps low-latency performance across all traffic conditions for every Fibre Channel port on the switch. Capital Expenditure (CapEx) savings: The 32-Gbps ports allow users to deploy them on existing 16- or 8-Gbps transceivers, reducing initial CapEx and investment protection with an option to upgrade to 32Gbps transceivers and adapters whenever needed. High availability: MDS 9396T switches is designed to provide 99.999% availability. It provides such outstanding availability and reliability...

SAN architectural benefits The new 32-Gbps fabric switches address the requirement for a highly scalable, virtualized, intelligent SAN infrastructure in current-generation data center environments. The industry is already poised to transition to 32Gbps fixed switches with the availability of 32-Gbps HBAs and storage arrays from vendors. Additionally, as low-latency flash arrays and extremely dense virtualization deployments become more pervasive, fixed switches are expected to provide 32-Gbps connectivity to the SAN core. This solution offers several important benefits: ● Server port consolidation:...

Product specifications Table 1 lists the specifications for the MDS 9396T 32-Gbps 96-Port Fibre Channel Switch. Table 1. Feature Protocols Product Specifications Description ● Fibre Channel standards ● FC-PH, Revision 4.3 (ANSI INCITS 230-1994) ● FC-PH, Amendment 1 (ANSI INCITS 230-1994/AM1-1996) ● FC-PH, Amendment 2 (ANSI INCITS 230-1994/AM2-1999) ● FC-PH-2, Revision 7.4 (ANSI INCITS 297-1997) ● FC-PH-3, Revision 9.4 (ANSI INCITS 303-1998) ● FC-PI, Revision 13 (ANSI INCITS 352-2002) ● FC-PI-2, Revision 10 (ANSI INCITS 404-2006) ● FC-PI-3, Revision 4 (ANSI INCITS 460-2011) ● FC-PI-4, Revision...

Description ● FC-BB-4, Revision 2.7 (ANSI INCITS 419-2008) ● FC-BB-5, Revision 2.0 (ANSI INCITS 462-2010) ● FC-VI, Revision 1.84 (ANSI INCITS 357-2002) ● FC-SP, Revision 1.8 (ANSI INCITS 426-2007) ● FC-SP-2, Revision 2.71 (ANSI INCITS 496-2012) ● FAIS, Revision 1.03 (ANSI INCITS 432-2007) ● FAIS-2, Revision 2.23 (ANSI INCITS 449-2008) ● FC-IFR, Revision 1.06 (ANSI INCITS 475-2011) ● FC-FLA, Revision 2.7 (INCITS TR-20-1998) ● FC-PLDA, Revision 2.1 (INCITS TR-19-1998) ● FC-Tape, Revision 1.17 (INCITS TR-24-1999) ● FC-MI, Revision 1.92 (INCITS TR-30-2002) ● FC-MI-2, Revision 2.6 (INCITS TR-39-2005)...

Feature Performance Description ● Port speed: 4/8/16/32-Gbps autosensing with 32 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth per port ● Aggregate bandwidth of 3 Tbps end-to-end full duplex ● Buffer credits: Up to 8300 for a group of 16 ports, with a default of 500 buffer credits per port and a maximum of 8270 buffer credits for a single port in the group ● Port groups: 6 port groups of 16 ports each ● Port channel: Up to 16 load-balanced physical links grouped in one port channel ● Power-On-Self-Test (POST) diagnostics ● Online Health Management System (OHMS) diagnostics ● Internal loopbacks ● SPAN ● Fibre Channel...

Feature Network management Description ● Management access through 2 out-of-band 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports ◦ mgmt0: 10/100/1000BASE-T port ◦ mgmt1: 1/10G SFP+ port# ● RS-232 serial console port ● USB power-on auto-provision port ● Access protocols ● Command-Line Interface (CLI) using the console and Ethernet port ● SNMPv3 using the Ethernet port and in-band IP over Fibre Channel access ● Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) ● NX-API for restful access via HTTPS ● Distributed device alias service ● Network security ● Per-VSAN...

Feature Temperature range Description ● Temperature, ambient operating: ◦ 32° to 104°F (0° to 40°C) ◦ Temperature, ambient nonoperating and storage: -40° to 158°F (-40° to 70°C) ● Relative humidity, ambient (noncondensing) operating: 10 to 90% ● Relative humidity, ambient (noncondensing) non-operating and storage: 10 to 95% ● Altitude, operating: -197 to 6500 ft (-60 to 2000m) ● Safety compliance ● CE Marking ● UL 60950 ● CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950 ● EN 60950 ● IEC 60950 ● TS 001 ● AS/NZS 3260 ● IEC60825 ● EN60825 ● 21 CFR 1040 ● EMC compliance ● FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A ● ICES-003 Class A ●...

Ordering information Table 2 describes optional licenses that can be purchased to enable additional features and capabilities on the Cisco MDS 9396T. Table 3 provides ordering information for the MDS 9396T 32-Gbps 96-Port switch base modules. Table 4 provides ordering information for the MDS 9396T switch spares that are orderable separately. Table 5 provides ordering information for the MDS 9396T switch bundles. Table 6 provides ordering information for the supported power cords. Table 7 provides ordering information for the supported transceivers. Table 8 provides ordering information for the...

Spare Modules Part number MDS 9396T 32G 2 RU Fibre Channel switch, with 48 active Fibre Channel ports, 2 fans, 2 PSU, port side exhaust, spare MDS 9396T 32G 2 RU Fibre Channel switch, with 48 active Fibre Channel ports, 2 fans, 2 PSU, port side intake, spare AC PSU Bidirectional airflow, spare MDS 9396T fan module, port-side exhaust, spare MDS 9396T fan module, port-side intake, spare Bundled Configurations Part number MDS 9396T 32G Fibre Channel switch, with 48 active ports + 48x32G SW optics, 2 fans, 2 PSUs, port side exhaust MDS 9396T 32G Fibre Channel switch, with 48 active ports + 48x32G...