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Cisco MDS 9509

Multilayer Director

The MDS 9509 Multilayer Director layers intelligent features onto a high performance core to provide uncompromising high availability, security, scalability, ease of management, and seamless integration of new technologies. The MDS 9506 allows you to deploy high-performance storage area networks (SANs) with lowest TCO. The director supports up to 336 Fibre Channel ports in a single rack and meets the requirements of large data center storage environments.

Product highlights

Key featuresBenefits
  • Scalability and Availability
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  • Nondisruptive software upgrades
  • Full redundancy of all major components
  • Supports 336 Fibre Channel ports in one chassis
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  • 1/2/4- and 10-Gb/s Fibre Channel switching with full bandwidth redundancy
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  • Delivers highest available Fibre Channel performance
  • Fully redundant bandwidth
  • Forward and Backward compatibility
  • Flexibility
  • Investment protection
  • VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing
  • Deployment of large-scale multisite and heterogeneous SANs