Cisco MDS 9506

Multilayer Director

The MDS 9506 is a part of the Cisco MDS 9500 Series. The MDS 9506 Multilayer Director elevates the standard for director-class switches. Providing industry-leading availability, scalability, security, and management, the Cisco MDS 9506 allows you to deploy high performance storage area networks with lowest total cost of ownership. It supports up to 192 Fibre Channel ports in a single chassis and is designed to meet the requirements of large data center storage environments.

Product highlights

Key features	Benefits
Scalability and Availability	Nondisruptive software upgrades Full redundancy of all major components Supports 192 Fibre Channel ports in one chassis
1/2/4- and 10-Gb/s Fibre Channel switching with full bandwidth redundancy	Delivers highest available Fibre Channel performance Fully redundant bandwidth
Forward and Backward compatibility	Delivers highest available Fibre Channel performance Fully redundant bandwidth
VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing	Deployment of large-scale multisite and heterogeneous SANs

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