The Cisco MDS 9500 Series of Multilayer Directors elevates the standard for director-class switches. Providing industry-leading availability, scalability, security, and management, the Cisco MDS 9500 Series allows you to deploy high-performance SANs with an extremely low TCO. Layering a rich set of intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-independent switch fabric, the Cisco MDS 9500 Series of Multilayer Directors addresses the stringent requirements of large data-center storage environments: uncompromising high availability, security, scalability, ease of management, and transparent integration of new technologies for extremely flexible data center SAN solutions.

Key features of Cisco’s MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors include a highly available director, total cost of ownership (TCO) design, multiprotocol and multitransport design, intelligent network services, open platform for storage applications, integrated hardware-based VSANs and Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), advanced FICON Services, comprehensive security framework, diagnostics and unified SAN management.

Part numbers associated with this product;

DS-C9513, DS-X9530-SF2-K9, DS-X9016, DS-X9032, DS-X9112, DS-X9124, DS-X9148, DS-X9302-14K9, DS-X9304-SMIP, DS-X9308-SMIP, DS-X9704, DS-SFP-FC4G