IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors for IBM System Storage Intelligent storage networking for IBM System Storage IT simplication and business continuity solutions Offers scalability to 192, 336 and 528 maximum Fibre Channel port count at 1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps Fibre Channel speed Multilayer architecture transparently integrates Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), IBM FICON, Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), and Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) in one system 32- and 48-port 8 Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules designed to allow a port to be congured as either 1, 2, 4, 8 or 10 Gbps, consolidating all ports into the same Fibre Channel switching module High-performance Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) that provide additional availability at the fabric level; PortChannel capability allows users to aggregate up to 16 physical links into one logical bundle The Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors for IBM® System Storage® are director-class storage area networking (SAN) switches designed for deployment in scalable enterprise and service provider clouds to enable exibility, resiliency and reliability. Layering a comprehensive set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocolindependent switch fabric, the MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors address the critical requirements of large virtualized data center storage environments such as high availability, security, scalability, ease-ofmanagement and simple integration of new technologies for extremely exible data center SAN solutions. Sharing the same operating system and management interface with other Cisco data center switches, the MDS 9500 Directors can help enable smooth deployment of unied fabrics with high-performance Fibre Channel and FCoE connectivity for low total cost of ownership (TCO). Compatible with all generations of Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fibre Channel Switching Modules, the MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors can help provide outstanding investment protection.

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Business transformation with enterprise cloud deployment Enterprise clouds can help provide organizations with elastic compute and network capabilities, enabling IT to scale up or scale down resources on a real-time basis in a quick and cost efficient manner. MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors can provide pay-as-you-grow exibility to meet the scalability needs of enterprise clouds; multihop FCoE required to provision storage in a multiprotocol unied fabric; robust security required for multitenancy cloud applications; predictable high performance required...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet The Cisco MDS 9513 offers up to 528 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbps autosensing Fibre Channel ports and up to 264 10 Gbps Fibre Channel ports in an 11-slot modular chassis. The MDS 9513 provides up to 1056 Fibre Channel ports in a single rack. The Cisco MDS 9509 offers up to 432 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbps autosensing Fibre Channel ports and up to 216 10 Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a nine-slot modular chassis. The MDS 9509 provides up to 864 Fibre Channel ports in a single rack. The Cisco MDS 9506 provides up to 288 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gbps autosensing Fibre Channel ports and up to...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Both 32-port and 48-port modules support up to twenty-four 10 Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces which can help consolidate 1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps ports into the same Fibre Channel switching module, thereby conserving space on the MDS 9000 Family chassis. With the introduction of the Fabric3 Switching module for MDS 9513, the active backplane bandwidth is increased to 256 Gbps per slot. Thus, the 32- and 48-port Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules are capable of providing 256 Gbps when used in an MDS 9513 for System Storage containing the Fabric3 switching...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Recognizing the need to support this convergence in management, Cisco is merging two management solutions—Cisco Fabric Manager and Cisco Data Center Network Manager. This unied product, Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), is an easy-to-use application that simplies management across multiple switches and converged fabrics. Directors’ software architectures offer an enterprise level of availability. The MDS 9500 Series Supervisor Modules automatically restart failed processes, making the MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors even more robust. In the rare...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet improved port densities of up to 528 8 Gbps or 264 10 Gbps Fibre Channel ports per chassis, multihop FCoE, high per-slot performance, unparalleled functionality with intelligent fabric services, VSANs for consolidating individual physical SAN islands while maintaining logical delineations, and IVR for sharing resources across VSANs. These capabilities can help consolidate an organization’s data assets into fewer, larger and more manageable SANs, thus reducing the hardware footprint and associated capital and operational expenses. For unied fabric deployments...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors for IBM System Storage at a glance1 Product characteristics Product numbers MDS 9513 for System Storage (2054-E11) MDS 9509 for System Storage (2054-E07) MDS 9506 for System Storage (2054-E04) Base machine Base chassis includes the following components: One Director chassis, fans, shelf bracket kit, cable management kit, manuals and accessory kit from Cisco 2054-E11—MDS 9513 for System Storage includes two Supervisor-2A cards, two Fabric3 cards, and two AC power supplies 2054-E07—MDS 9509 for System Storage includes...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors for IBM System Storage at a glance1 Management software MDS 9000 Family Command Line Interface Cisco Data Center Network Manager Cisco Device Manager Servers supported *** IBM Power Systems™ servers, IBM System p® and selected IBM RS/6000® servers IBM System z® IBM System i® IBM System x® and selected IBM Netnity® servers Other Intel processor-based servers running the Linux, Microsoft Windows NT or Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems Selected Sun and HP servers Operating systems supported Microsoft Windows,...