Overview

The The Cisco MDS 9513 Director Switch delivers industry-leading scalability, up to 528-ports, and performance, with 2.4 Terabits per second internal system bandwidth. It boasts a very high port density in the 13 slot, 14U chassis with high availability features to lower TCO and enable SAN infrastructure consolidation. HP delivers the Cisco MDS 9513 Director Switch with dual supervisor 2 modules, dual fabric modules, redundant fans, clocks, power supplies and non-disruptive upgrades to ensure smooth, continuous operation. The dual fabric modules are a new innovation which makes even the backplane of the MDS 9513 is both redundant and hot-swappable, thereby taking fabric availability to a different plane.

The eleven open expansion slots can be filled by optional MDS 9000 Family Modules, including earlier generation 16 and 32 port 2 Gb Fibre Channel modules along with the new generation 12, 24 and 48-port, 4 Gb Fibre Channel and 4-port, 10 Gb Fibre Channel Modules. Other modules available offer integrated Fibre Channel, FCIP and iSCSI operation for SAN extension over IP networks. These include the 4-port and 8-port IP Storage Services Modules, and Multi-protocol Services Module. These modules provide integrated, “in-the-box” operation for SAN extension over IP networks for business continuance and disaster recovery solutions, iSCSI host access to Fibre Channel connected storage arrays and enterprise-wide data archiving solutions. The MDS 9000 Storage Services Module enables fabric-based applications to access fabric-wide services for a wide range of applications such as business continuance, storage virtualization, data migration, network assisted backup and information life cycle management. These are all integrated with HP StorageWorks Management Essentials and CiscoWorks RME, to ease administration, improve productivity, and simplify infrastructure management.

Features and Benefits