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Saptarshi Sengupta Senior Product Manager, Cisco

16G Multilayer Fabric Switch Family

May 2015

Cisco MDS 9148S and MDS 9396S

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Continued extension of broad switching portfolio

LAN/SAN SAN

Cisco Nexus 5000

Cisco Nexus 6000

Cisco Nexus 7000

Cisco Nexus 1000V

Cisco Nexus 3000 Cisco

Nexus 2000

Cisco MDS 9710

10+ Years of Proven NX-OS Operating System

Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager (DCNM)

Cisco MDS 9250i

Cisco MDS 9148S

Consistent and simplified features, management, and programmability

Cisco® MDS 9500 Series

Cisco MDS 9396S

Cisco MDS 9706 Ne

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Cisco MDS 16G Multilayer Fabric Switch Family

The power of 16G Fibre Channel at a new level of value

MDS 9148S MDS 9396S

HIGH PERFORMANCE

AND VERSATILITY

SIMPLIFIED OPERATIONS

ENTERPRISE-CLASS

TECHNOLOGY Pay-as-You-Grow 16G 1/2RU Switch

Easy to Use Deploy for Virtualized

Environments

New

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Cisco MDS 9396S 16G Multilayer Fabric Switch

Industry’s most versatile 16G fabric switch

§  Line-rate 16/10/8/4/2G FC ports

§  Port-side-exhaust (Back to front) airflow

§  48 - 96 port possible configurations with 12-port increment

Rear View Front View

96 x 16G FC ports with line-rate performance

2 RU

Dual power supplies and fan trays

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Performance and versatility for growth and virtualization

§  Up to 4095 B2B credits per port

§  NPV or NPIV Core

§  Leverage up to 32 VSANs

§  Supports IVR, QOS and PortChannels Port Channel Links

for high resiliency Trunk Links for flexible VSAN connectivity

ENTRY-LEVEL SAN MID-SCALE SAN

MDS 9396S

MDS 9710

Comprehensive Enterprise-class capabilities

Virtualized Servers

MDS 9396S

SAN A SAN B SAN C

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Consistent configuration on switch power-up

MDS 9148S / MDS 9396S

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Provides: • IP Address, Gateway

• Software Image • Configuration File

§  Automates switch setup §  Eliminates the need for

serial cable for manual configuration of each switch

§  Ensures configuration consistency

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Continued extension of broad switching portfolio

End-End visibility Host path redundancy

Health Index

Reduce operational cost via ease of management

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Summary

High-density, Highly Reliable, Versatile, Enterprise Class Fabric Switch

for your single switch SAN Solution

MDS 9396S

New

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