The Cisco MDS 9222i for IBM System Storage™ is designed to address the needs of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises with a wide range of Storage Area Network (SAN) capabilities. It can be used as a cost-effective high performance SAN extension over IP router switch for midrange SMB customers in support of IT simplification and business continuity solutions. It can also be used as a remote site router switch for device aggregation and SAN extension over IP to data centre directors for large enterprise customers.
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Operating systems
Optional Features
18 Fibre Channel and 4 IP ports; expandable with one 12, 24 or 48-port 4 Gbps FC switch module or one 4/44 8 Gbps FC switch module or one 4-port 10 Gbps FC switch module
1, 2, 4 and 8Gbps auto-sensing fabric; Gigabit Ethernet IP; 10 Gbps ISL
Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®, NetWare®, IBM OS/400® and z/OS®
Assorted optical and copper transceivers and cables; MDS 9200 Enterprise, Fabric Manager Server, 8-port and 18/4-port SAN Extension over IP, Mainframe, Storage Service Enabler Packages; 4 port 10 Gbps ISL; 12-, 24-, 48-port 4 Gbps FC; 4/44-port 8 Gbps FC, 8 port IP and18 FC/4 IP port; Storage Services (32 2 Gbps FC) modules
The Cisco MDS 9148 for IBM System Storage Multilayer Fabric Switch (2417-C48) is designed to provide an affordable, highly capable and scalable storage networking solution for small, midrange and large enterprise customers. It can be used as part of Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions from simple single-switch configurations to larger multiswitch configurations in support of fabric connectivity and advanced business continuity capabilities.
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Link Speeds
Servers
16, 24, 32, 40 and 48 ports
1, 2, 4 and 8 Gigabits per second (Gbps)
IBM System x servers
Other Intel® processor-based servers
IBM System p servers
IBM System i servers
Selected Sun and HP servers
The Cisco MDS 9134 for IBM System Storage™ is designed to address the needs of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises with a wide range of Storage Area Network (SAN) capabilities. It can be used as part of a high performance simple SAN with single-switch or stacked switch configurations for business-class customers in support of IT simplification and business continuity solutions. It can also be used as an edge switch for device aggregation with 10 Gbps core director configurations for large enterprise customers.
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Operating Systems
Optional Features
Single switch: 24, 32; Stacked switches: 48, 56, 64 fabric
4, 2 and 1 Gbps auto-sensing; 10 Gbps ISL
Microsoft® Windows®, UNIX®, Linux®, NetWare®, IBM OS/400® and z/OS®
On-Demand ports; optical and copper transceivers and fibre cables; MDS 9100 Enterprise, Mainframe, Fabric Manager Server Packages
The Cisco MDS 9124 Express for System Storage™ is designed to address the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses with a wide range of SAN capabilities. It can be used as part of SAN solutions from simple single-switch configurations to larger multi-switch configurations in support of fabric connectivity and advanced business continuity capabilities.
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Link Speeds
Servers
8, 16, 24 (2053-424) 16, 24 (2417-C24, PN 2417C24)
1, 2 and 4 Gbps
IBM System i™, System p™, System x™ and IBM BladeCenter®
The Cisco MDS 9513 for IBM® System Storage™ provides 12 to 524 ports, 4 and 8 Gbps fabric switching for Windows® NT®/2000, UNIX® and mainframe IBM FICON® switching for server clustering, infrastructure simplification and business continuity solutions. The base director offers Virtual SAN (VSAN), Cisco Fabric Manager and 11 feature slots. Features include 12-, 24- and 48-port 4 Gbps, 24-, 48- and 4/44-port 8 Gbps, and 4-port 10 Gbps FC Modules; IP and Multiservice 18/4 Modules; Enterprise, SAN Extension over IP, Fabric Manager Server, Storage Services Enabler and Mainframe Packages.
Ports
Link Speeds
Servers
up to 528
1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps
IBM System z9™, IBM Power Systems™, IBM System p5™, IBM System i®, System p®, IBM System x™ and IBM System z®
The Cisco MDS 9506 for IBM System Storage provides 24 to 192 Fibre channel ports-with up to 8 Gigabits per Second (Gbps) performance-and 4 to 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports for iSCSI or FCIP connectivity. With a high-availability design, it includes Virtual SAN (VSAN) capability for SAN consolidation into virtual SAN "islands" on a single physical fabric and comprehensive security for large enterprise SANs deployment. The director uses intelligent networking services to help simplify mainframe FICON and Fibre Channel SAN management and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
Ports
Link Speeds
Servers
Up to 192
1, 2, 4, 8 and 10Gbps
IBM AIX®, Linux®, Microsoft® Windows NT® or Microsoft Windows® 2000 and IBM mainframe operating systems
The Cisco MDS 9509 for IBM® System Storage™ provides 24 to 336 Fibre channel ports-with up to 8 Gigabit per second (Gbps) performance-and 4 to 40 Gigabit Ethernet ports for iSCSI or FCIP connectivity. With a high-availability design, it includes Virtual SAN (VSAN) capability for SAN consolidation into virtual SAN "islands" on a single physical fabric and comprehensive security for large enterprise SANs deployment. The director uses intelligent networking services to help simplify mainframe FICON® and Fibre Channel SAN management and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Link Speeds
Servers
Up to 336 Fibre Channel ports
1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps
AIX®, Linux®, Microsoft® Windows NT® or Microsoft Windows® 2000 and IBM mainframe operating systems
