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
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- 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
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- Forward and Backward compatibility
| - Flexibility
- Investment protection
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- VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing
| - Deployment of large-scale multisite and heterogeneous SANs
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