The MDS 9700 48-Port 32-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Module enables administrators to scale and consolidate SAN deployments with fewer hardware components. Your SAN administrators can consolidate workloads from hundreds of high-performance virtual machines and scale them with incremental updates as your SAN grows while protecting your existing investment.
This switching module ships with a built-in analytics engine. The engine can analyze real-time Fibre Channel exchanges and report on various metrics in detail, enabling comprehensive and timely monitoring of any potential performance problems among SAN edge devices. The on-board network processing unit (NPU) in the module allows I/O-level metrics to be computed at every switch. The NPU can monitor all flows on all ports at line rate. The NPU examines every exchange passing through the 32-Gbps application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) to capture flow metrics such as exchange completion time, maximum number of outstanding exchanges, data access latency, read and write I/O operations per second (IOPS), throughput, logical unit number (LUN) access pattern (sequential or random), and I/O block sizes.
The switching module is hot swappable and compatible with 4-, 8-, 16-, and 32-Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces. This module also supports hot-swappable Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) transceivers. Individual ports can be configured with Cisco 32-, 16-, and 8-Gbps SFP+ transceivers. Each port supports 500 buffer credits for exceptional extensibility without the need for additional licenses. With the Cisco Enterprise Package license, up to 8191 buffer credits can be allocated to an individual port, enabling full link bandwidth over long distances with no degradation in link utilization.
The 32-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module also provides existing features such as predictable performance, high availability, advanced traffic management capabilities, integrated VSAN and IVR, resilient high-performance ISLs, hardware-assisted slow-drain support, comprehensive security frameworks, fault detection and isolation of errored packets, and sophisticated diagnostics.
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Product compatibility: Cisco MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors
Software compatibility: Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release NX-OS 8.1(1)
Protocols
● Fibre Channel standards
◦ FC-PH, Revision 4.3 (ANSI INCITS 230-1994)
◦ FC-PH, Amendment 1 (ANSI INCITS 230-1994/AM1-1996)
◦ FC-PH, Amendment 2 (ANSI INCITS 230-1994/AM2-1999)
◦ FC-PH-2, Revision 7.4 (ANSI INCITS 297-1997)
◦ FC-PH-3, Revision 9.4 (ANSI INCITS 303-1998)
◦ FC-PI, Revision 13 (ANSI INCITS 352-2002)
◦ FC-PI-2, Revision 10 (ANSI INCITS 404-2006)
◦ FC-PI-3, Revision 4 (ANSI INCITS 460-2011)
◦ FC-PI-4, Revision 8 (ANSI INCITS 450-2008)
◦ FC-PI-5, Revision 6 (ANSI INCITS 479-2011)
◦ FC-FS, Revision 1.9 (ANSI INCITS 373-2003)
◦ FC-FS-2, Revision 1.01 (ANSI INCITS 424-2007)
◦ FC-FS-2, Amendment 1 (ANSI INCITS 424-2007/AM1-2007)
◦ FC-FS-3, Revision 1.11 (ANSI INCITS 470-2011)
◦ FC-LS, Revision 1.62 (ANSI INCITS 433-2007)
◦ FC-LS-2, Revision 2.21 (ANSI INCITS 477-2011)
◦ FC-SW-2, Revision 5.3 (ANSI INCITS 355-2001)
◦ FC-SW-3, Revision 6.6 (ANSI INCITS 384-2004)
◦ FC-SW-4, Revision 7.5 (ANSI INCITS 418-2006)
◦ FC-SW-5, Revision 8.5 (ANSI INCITS 461-2010)
◦ FC-GS-3, Revision 7.01 (ANSI INCITS 348-2001)
◦ FC-GS-4, Revision 7.91 (ANSI INCITS 387-2004)
◦ FC-GS-5, Revision 8.51 (ANSI INCITS 427-2007)
◦ FC-GS-6, Revision 9.4 (ANSI INCITS 463-2010)
◦ FCP, Revision 12 (ANSI INCITS 269-1996)
◦ FCP-2, Revision 8 (ANSI INCITS 350-2003)
◦ FCP-3, Revision 4 (ANSI INCITS 416-2006)
◦ FCP-4, Revision 2b (ANSI INCITS 481-2011)
◦ FC-SB-2, Revision 2.1 (ANSI INCITS 349-2001)
◦ FC-SB-3, Revision 1.6 (ANSI INCITS 374-2003)
◦ FC-SB-3, Amendment 1 (ANSI INCITS 374-2003/AM1-2007)
◦ FC-SB-4, Revision 3.0 (ANSI INCITS 466-2011)
◦ FC-SB-5, Revision 2.00 (ANSI INCITS 485-2014)
◦ FC-BB-6, Revision 2.00 (ANSI INCITS 509-2014)
◦ FC-BB-2, Revision 6.0 (ANSI INCITS 372-2003)
◦ FC-BB-3, Revision 6.8 (ANSI INCITS 414-2006)
◦ FC-BB-4, Revision 2.7 (ANSI INCITS 419-2008)
◦ FC-BB-5, Revision 2.0 (ANSI INCITS 462-2010)
◦ FC-VI, Revision 1.84 (ANSI INCITS 357-2002)
◦ FC-SP, Revision 1.8 (ANSI INCITS 426-2007)
◦ FC-SP-2, Revision 2.71 (ANSI INCITS 496-2012)
FAIS, Revision 1.03 (ANSI INCITS 432-2007)
◦ FAIS-2, Revision 2.23 (ANSI INCITS 449-2008)
◦ FC-IFR, Revision 1.06 (ANSI INCITS 475-2011)
◦ FC-FLA, Revision 2.7 (INCITS TR-20-1998)
◦ FC-PLDA, Revision 2.1 (INCITS TR-19-1998)
◦ FC-Tape, Revision 1.17 (INCITS TR-24-1999)
◦ FC-MI, Revision 1.92 (INCITS TR-30-2002)
◦ FC-MI-2, Revision 2.6 (INCITS TR-39-2005)
◦ FC-MI-3, Revision 1.03 (INCITS TR-48-2012)
◦ FC-DA, Revision 3.1 (INCITS TR-36-2004)
◦ FC-DA-2, Revision 1.06 (INCITS TR-49-2012)
◦ FC-MSQS, Revision 3.2 (INCITS TR-46-2011)
◦ Fibre Channel classes of service: Class 2, Class 3, and Class F
◦ Fibre Channel standard port types: E, F, FL, and B
◦ Fibre Channel enhanced port types: SD, ST, and TE
Cards, ports, and slots
● 48 autosensing 4/8-Gbps or 4/8/16-Gbps or 8/16/32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports
● Can be used on any payload slot of the MDS 9700 Series directors
Features and Functions
Fabric services
● Name server
● Registered state-change notification (RSCN)
● Login services
● Fabric configuration server (FCS)
● Public loop
● Broadcast
● In-order delivery
Advanced functions
● VSAN
● IVR
● Port channel with multipath load balancing
● Flow-based and zone-based QoS
● N-port ID virtualization (NPIV)
● Inline analytics
Diagnostics and troubleshooting tools
● POST diagnostics
● Online diagnostics
● Internal port loopbacks
● SPAN and RSPAN
● Fibre Channel traceroute
● Fibre Channel ping
● Fibre Channel debug
● Cisco Fabric Analyzer
● Syslog
● Online system health
● Port-level statistics
● Real-time protocol debug
● E-port and F-port diagnostics
Network security
● VSANs
● ACLs
● Per-VSAN RBAC
● Fibre Channel zoning
◦ N-port Worldwide Name (WWN)
◦ N-port Fibre Channel ID (FC-ID)
◦ Fx-port WWN
◦ Fx-port WWN and interface index
◦ Fx-port domain ID and interface index
◦ Fx-port domain ID and port number
◦ LUN
● FC-SP 1
◦ DH-CHAP switch-to-switch authentication
◦ DH-CHAP host-to-switch authentication
● Port security and fabric binding
● Management access
◦ SSHv2 implementing AES
◦ SNMPv3 implementing AES
◦ SFTP
● Cisco TrustSec1Fibre Channel link-level encryption
◦ SSHv2 implementing AES
Serviceability
● Configuration file management
● Nondisruptive software upgrades for Fibre Channel interfaces
● Cisco Call Home
● Power-management LEDs
● Port beaconing
● System LED
● SNMP traps for alerts
● Network boot
Performance
● Port speed: 4/8-Gbps, 4/8/16-Gbps, and 8/16/32-Gbps autosensing Fibre Channel
● Buffer credits:
◦ Default credits per port: 500
◦ With Enterprise license
◦ 8300 shared among a single port group of 16 ports
◦ 8191 maximum credits per port
● Port channel: Up to 16 ports
Reliability and availability
● Hot-swappable module
● Hot-swappable SFP+ transceivers
● Online diagnostics
● Stateful process restart
● Nondisruptive supervisor failover
● Any-module, any-port configuration for port channels
● Fabric-based multipathing
● Per-VSAN fabric services
● Port tracking
● Virtual Routing Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for management
Network management
● Access methods through MDS 9700 Series Supervisor-1 Module
◦ Out-of-band 10/100/1000 Ethernet port (Supervisor-1)
◦ RS-232 serial console port
◦ In-band IP over Fibre Channel
● Access protocols
◦ Command-line interface (CLI) through console and Ethernet ports
◦ SNMPv3 through Ethernet port and in-band IP over Fibre Channel access
● Distributed Device Alias service
● Network security
◦ Per-VSAN RBAC using RADIUS- and TACACS+-based authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) functions
◦ SFTP
◦ SSHv2 implementing AES
◦ SNMPv3 implementing AES
● Management applications
◦ Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI
◦ Cisco Fabric Manager
◦ Cisco Device Manager
Programming interfaces
● Scriptable CLI
● Cisco Prime DCNM web services API
● Cisco Prime DCNM GUI
● Representational state transfer (REST) API
Environmental
● Temperature, ambient operating: 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
● Temperature, ambient nonoperating and storage: –40 to 158°F (–40 to 70°C)
● Relative humidity, ambient (noncondensing) operating: 10 to 90%
● Relative humidity, ambient (noncondensing) nonoperating and storage: 10 to 95%
● Altitude, operating: –197 to 6500 ft (–60 to 2000m)
Physical dimensions
● Dimensions (H x W x D): 1.75 x 15.9 x 21.8 in. (4.4 x 40.39 x 55.37 cm)
● Weight: 17.5 lb (7.94 kg)
Approvals and compliance
● Regulatory compliance
◦ CE Markings per directives 2004/108/EC and 2006/95/EC
● Safety compliance
◦ UL 60950-1 Second Edition
◦ CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 Second Edition
◦ EN 60950-1 Second Edition
◦ IEC 60950-1 Second Edition
◦ AS/NZS 60950-1
◦ GB4943 2001
● EMC compliance
◦ 47CFR Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
◦ AS/NZS CISPR22 Class A
◦ CISPR22 Class A
◦ EN55022 Class A
◦ ICES003 Class A
◦ VCCI Class A
◦ EN61000-3-2
◦ EN61000-3-3
◦ KN22 Class A
◦ CNS13438 Class A
◦ EN55024
◦ CISPR24
◦ EN300386
◦ KN24