The Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer SAN Switches can help lower the total cost of ownership for the most demanding storage environments. By combining hearty and flexible hardware architecture with multiple layers of network and storage-management intelligence, the Cisco MDS 9000 Series helps users build highly available, scalable storage networks with advanced security and integrated management.

Cisco MDS 9000 family fabric switches are cost-effective, highly scalable, easy to install, and highly configurable Fibre Channel switches that are ideal for small to medium-sized businesses, along with departmental and remote branch offices needing intelligent storage area networks. With deployment options ranging from stand-alone, top-of-the rack, and blade switches for IBM BladeCenter and HP c-Class BladeSystem, the Cisco MDS 9100 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches provide customers with excellent flexibility, while maintaining consistent feature sets and management capabilities.

Some of the benefits of Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Switches include more features than competing products, offering a low total cost of ownership, and a quick configuration wizard. The fabric switches offer many of the same features as the director-class switches. The switches provide a consistent feature set end-to-end. There are no hidden licenses to enable features. The Cisco MDS 9000 family fabric switches support Cisco features such as VSANs, PortChannels, quality of service (QoS), SAN security, SAN management, hardware-enforced zoning, and Cisco In Service Software Upgrade at no additional cost to the user.

Part numbers associated with this product;

DS-C9222i-K9, DS-C9134-K9, DS-C9134-1K9, DS-9134G-K9, DS-9134G-1K9, DS-C9124-K9, M9124PL8-4G, M9124PL8-4G, 39Y9280, 30Y9284, 39Y9290, 41Y8596, 41Y8498, 41Y8600, AG641-63001, AG642-63001