These switches deliver industry leading scalability, selection, performance, high availability, manageability, and security for SAN consolidation and significantly increase ROI and lower TCO for IT.
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The Cisco MDS 9500 Director Switches deliver industry-leading scalability, up to 528-ports, and performance, with up to 2.4 Terabits per second internal system bandwidth. The MDS 9513 boasts a very high port density in the 13 slot, 14U chassis with high availability features to lower TCO and enable SAN infrastructure consolidation. HP delivers the Cisco MDS 9500 Directors with dual supervisor 2 modules, dual fabric 2 modules, redundant fans, clocks, power supplies and non-disruptive upgrades to ensure smooth, continuous operation. The dual fabric 2 modules are a new innovation which double the bandwidth per slot on the MDS 9513 is both redundant and hot-swappable, thereby taking fabric availability to a different level.
The open expansion slots on the MDS 9500 Directors can be filled with optional MDS 9000 family port modules, including earlier generation Fibre Channel modules along with the newest generation 24 and 48 port performance and host optimized 8Gb Fibre Channel modules.
What's new
New 2-2-2 warranty for MDS 9500 Series Directors increases the warranty from a 1-1-1 9x5 Next Business Day response to a 2 Year, 24x7, 4hr response warranty
Features and Benefits
Investment protection, data protection and reliability are hallmarks of 9500 Directors.
Adaptable: users can easily expand and deploy new technology on their MDS 9500 Directors as needs dictate
Manageable: provides embedded Fabric Manager, Optional Cisco Fabric Manager Server and integration with HP StorageWorks Management Essentials and CiscoWorks RME
Serviceable and Upgradeable: delivers embedded diagnostics (Fibre Channel ping, traceroute and protocol analyzer) and “Call Home” capabilities. Offers investment protection with multiple module options, all interchangeable across MDS 9000 line
High availability: provides non-disruptive software upgrades, stateful process failover and hot swappable components
Data Protection: Storage Media Encryption provides heterogeneous support for data stored to tape.
Flexibility and controlled access are key to protecting your data with MDS 9500 Directors.
Secure: supports VSANs, hardware-enforced zoning, role-based access control, Data encryption using IPsec for IP network links and access control lists
Multi-protocol: integrates Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and FCIP in one system, no separate boxes to manage
Flexible: introduces Virtual SANs (VSANs) and Inter-VSAN routing for consolidation of isolated SAN islands on a single physical fabric
MDS 9500 Directors provide what it takes for SAN consolidation.
Scalable: offers 12 to 528 Fibre Channel ports; supports throughput up to 160 Gb in a single Port Channel ISL
High performance: supplies up to 2.4 Terabits of total internal bandwidth for integrated 4, 8 and 10 Gb Fibre Channel switching
Open: provides open platform for hosting third party storage applications, such as virtualization
