Data Sheet Cisco MDS 9706 Multilayer Director Product Overview The Cisco® MDS 9706 Multilayer Director (Figure 1) is a director-class SAN switch designed for deployment in small to medium-sized storage networks to support enterprise clouds and business transformation. It layers a comprehensive set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-independent switch fabric. The MDS 9706 addresses the stringent requirements of large virtualized data center storage environments. It delivers uncompromising availability, security, scalability, ease of management, and transparent integration of new technologies for extremely flexible data center SAN solutions. It shares the same operating system and management interface with other Cisco data center switches. The MDS 9706 lets you transparently deploy unified fabrics with Fibre Channel, IBM Fibre Connection (FICON), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connectivity with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). Figure 1. Cisco MDS 9706 Multilayer Director Main Features The MDS 9706 offers a number of important features. Lower TCO with SAN Consolidation Organizations need efficient, cost-effective SANs to keep up with today’s exponential data growth. The MDS 9706 lets you easily consolidate data assets into fewer, larger, and more manageable SANs to reduce your hardware footprint and associated capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx). It offers industry-leading scalability with: ● Up to 192 32-Gbps Fibre Channel or 10-Gbps FCoE ports or 96 40-Gbps FCoE ports per chassis Up to 12 terabits per second (Tbps) front-panel, Fibre Channel, line-rate, nonblocking system-level switching capacity © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.

Exceptional capabilities with intelligent fabric services Virtual SANs (VSANs) for consolidating individual physical SAN islands while maintaining logical boundaries Inter-VSAN routing (IVR) for sharing resources across VSANs For unified fabric deployments with converged LAN and SAN environments using lossless Ethernet, the MDS 9706 provides multihop FCoE. Protect your organization’s investments in existing storage infrastructure with any-to-any connectivity across multiple protocols. Scalable Expansion with Outstanding Investment Protection The MDS 9706 is designed to make optimal use of valuable...

Furthermore, Cisco Prime™ Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) provides resource monitoring and capacity planning on a per-virtual machine basis. You can federate up to 10 DCNM servers to easily manage large clouds. Resource use information can be delivered through Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)-based developer APIs to deliver IT as a service (ITaaS). Convergence with Multihop FCoE FCoE allows an evolutionary approach to network and I/O convergence by preserving all Fibre Channel constructs, maintaining the latency, security, and traffic management attributes of Fibre Channel...

1 IBM FICON will be officially supported on the Cisco MDS 9706 in a post-FCS release. © 2017 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.

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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 8 (ANSI INCITS 450-2008) • FC-PI-5, Revision 6 (ANSI INCITS 479-2011) • FC-FS, Revision 1.9 (ANSI INCITS 373-2003) • FC-FS-2, Revision 1.01 (ANSI INCITS 424-2007) • FC-FS-2, Amendment...

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Advanced functions Diagnostics and troubleshooting tools Network security • VSAN • IVR • Port channel with multipath load balancing • QoS: Flow based and zone based • N-port ID virtualization (NPIV) • Power-on self-test (POST) diagnostics • Online diagnostics • Internal port loopbacks • SPAN and RSPAN • Fibre Channel traceroute • Fibre Channel ping • Fibre Channel debug • Cisco Fabric Analyzer • Syslog • Online system health • Port-level statistics • Real-Time Protocol (RTP) debug • VSANs • ACLs • Per-VSAN RBAC • Fibre Channel zoning • N-port Worldwide Name (WWN) • N-port FC-ID • Fx-port WWN •...

Network management Programming interface • Online, nondisruptive software upgrades • Stateful nondisruptive supervisor module failover • Hot-swappable redundant supervisor modules • Hot-swappable redundant fabric modules • Hot-swappable 2N redundant power • Hot-swappable fan trays with integrated temperature and power management • Hot-swappable Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) optics (2/4/8/10/16/32-Gbps Fibre Channel and 10 Gigabit Ethernet). 2G speeds not supported on 32-Gbps switching module • Hot-swappable switching modules • Stateful process restart • Any module, any port configuration...

Feature Environmental 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) nonoperating and storage: 10 to 95% ● Altitude, operating: –197 to 6500 ft (–60 to 2000m) ● Chassis dimensions (9RU): 15.6 x 17.3 x 32.0 in. (39.62 x 43.9 x 81.3 cm) ● Chassis depth including cable management and chassis doors is 38 in. (96.52 cm) ● Unit is rack mountable in a standard 19-inch (482.6-mm) EIA rack; unit...