Starts with 24 active 4Gbps Fibre Channel ports, an upgrade plan that lets you pay as you grow up to 64 ports with dual stacked switches. Delivers advanced storage networking capability at lower TCO.
Cisco MDS switch also has a set of additional advanced traffic engineering and advanced security features recommended for all Enterprise SANs. The additional features listed below are bundled together in the Cisco MDS 9000 Enterprise package.
Inter VSAN Routing (not directly supported on Cisco MDS 9124, 9124e and 9134 Fabric Switches)
Quality of Service (QoS) levels Switch-Switch and Host-Switch Authentication Host to LUN Zoning Read-Only Zoning Individual Port Security VSAN Based Access Control
Optional
Cisco MDS 9134 8-port Activation Upgrade LTU
The MDS 9134 8-Port Activation upgrade License To Use allows users to activate 8-ports up to the maximum 32 ports. Buy one LTU to upgrade from 24-ports active to 32. This provides “pay as you grow” capability.
MDS 9134 2-port, 10 Gb Activation upgrade License To Use allows users to activate the 2Gb ports as needed for Inter-Switch Links when stacking MDS 9134s or connecting 9134s to MDS 9200/MDS 9500 series switches.
