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Data Sheet Cisco MDS 9396T 32-Gbps 96-Port Fibre Channel Switch 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 high-density, highly reliable and scalable, enterprise class semi-modular switch is ideal for medium to large departmental SANs. For standalone SANs, this switch can serve dense hyperscale server environments that spawn thousands of virtual Host Bus Adapters (vHBAs) serving several virtual machine instances, providing each of them with predictable throughput, consistent latency and highly available paths by distributing the physical SAN connectivity across six different port groups of 16 ports each. Autozone allows these standalone deployments to benefit from automatic zoning of host and storage ports without requiring any manual zoning configuration. These smaller port groups enable a design with smaller failure domains rather than one large failure domain consisting of all switch ports. The number of hosts can be expanded further by connecting this switch as an N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) core switch to any existing top-of-rack switch in N-Port Virtualization (NPV) mode. Large-scale departmental SANs can deploy this switch as end-of-row, middle-of-row, or even top-of-rack in either forward or reverse airflow directions, connecting to existing MDS directors in the SAN core. Figure 1. Cisco MDS 9396T 32-Gbps 96-Port Fibre Channel Switch © 2018 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.

Main features The main features of the MDS 9396T 32-Gbps 96-Port Fibre Channel Switch include: ● High density and scale: Ninety-six 32-Gbps line rate Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) ports provide an aggregate bandwidth of 3-Tbps per switch for highly scalable designs for hyperscale environments that drive several thousands of virtual machine instances within the rack. This switch provides at least 6 ports that can be configured with up to 8270 Buffer-To-Buffer (B2B) credits that can be connected to remote data centers as far as 612 km (380 miles) using native Fibre Channel...

Virtual machine awareness: The MDS 9396T provides visibility into all virtual machines accessing the storage LUNs in the fabric. This feature is available through HBAs capable of priority tagging the Virtual Machine Identifier (VMID) on every Fibre Channel frame. Virtual-machine awareness can be extended to intelligent fabric services such as analytics1 to visualize performance of every flow originating from each virtual machine in the fabric. Programmable fabric: The MDS 9396T provides powerful Representational State Transfer (REST) and Cisco NX-OS Software API capabilities to enable...

Platform compatibility For detailed information about hardware and software compatibility as well as product interoperability, see the MDS 9000 series switch interoperability matrix. Table 1 lists the specifications for the MDS 9396T 32-Gbps 96-Port Fibre Channel Switch. Table 1. Product specifications • 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...

● 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) ● FC-MI-3, Revision 1.03 (INCITS TR-48-2012) ● FC-DA, Revision 3.1 (INCITS TR-36-2004) ● FC-DA-2, Revision 1.06 (INCITS TR-49-2012) ● FC-MSQS, Revision 3.2 (INCITS TR-46-2011) ● Fibre Channel...

● Configuration file management ● Call Home ● Port beaconing ● Link Cable beacon ● System LEDs ● SNMP traps for alerts ● Cisco In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) ● Hot-swappable, dual redundant power supplies ● Hot-swappable fan tray with switch integrated temperature and power management ● Hot-swappable SFP+ optics ● Hot swappable port expansion module ● Stateful process restart ● Any port configuration for port channels ● Fabric-based multi pathing ● Per-VSAN fabric services ● Port tracking ● VRRP for management IP interface ● FEC with HBA ports ● Buffer-to-buffer state change...

● 80 Plus Platinum certified power supplies ● Power supply ◦ 1200W AC/ HVAC/ HVDC Bidirectional airflow (2 per switch) ◦ Power grid redundancy (1+1) ● Two power cords ◦ Standard CAB-HVAC-C14-2M IEC C14 to Saf-d-grid connector on the power supply receptacle ◦ See Table 6 for configurable AC power cords that connect to AC sockets specific to regions ● AC input: 90V to 305V ● DC input: 192V to 400V ● Frequency: 50 to 60 Hz (nominal) ● Typical power consumption ◦ 246W for Idle 96-port switch with (1+1) PSU redundancy without optics modules ◦ 330W for 96-port switch with 48 32G optics modules...

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