The Cisco MDS 9100 Series switches are an economical, compact Fibre Channel switch that provides Cisco Intelligent Networking for small to medium sized SANs and data center edge applications. The Cisco MDS 9100 Series switches offer an ideal combination of cost, performance, and enterprise-class features in a compact 1RU form factor. The Cisco MDS 9100 Series switches are available in 20-port and 40-port configurations to provide the port density required for a variety of storage environments. The Cisco MDS 9100 Series switches compare favorably with competitive products by providing leading scalability, availability, security, and manageability that enables customers to deploy high-performance SANs at a lower TCO.
The Cisco MDS 9100 series matrix switches provide a compact 1RU design with 20‑port or 40‑port configurations, delivering advanced storage‑area‑network features such as VSAN, virtual output sorting, QoS, and congestion control. They support hot‑pluggable SFP LC interfaces and offer up to 2 Gbps per port.
Management is unified through a CLI, Cisco MDS Manager, and third‑party tools, while security includes RADIUS, TACACS+, FC‑SP, SFTP, SSH and SNMPv3. High availability is achieved with hot‑swap fans and power supplies, PortChannel aggregation of up to 15 links, and multipath load‑balancing. This manual is written in Chinese.
| Port configurations | 20‑port or 40‑port |
|---|---|
| Port speed | 2 Gbps per port |
| Maximum ports | Up to 40 ports of 2/1‑Gbps auto‑sensing Fibre Channel |
| Buffer credit points (target‑optimized ports) | Up to 255 |
The switches are offered in 20‑port and 40‑port configurations.
It supports RADIUS, TACACS+, FC‑SP, SFTP, SSH and SNMPv3.
Yes, the switches include hot‑pluggable SFP LC interfaces.