Specifications Cisco MDS 9000

Minimum Software Requirements

• Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software Release 3.2(1)

Performance and Port Configurations

• Port speed: 4-, 2-, and 1-Gbps  autosensing with 4 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth per port and 10 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for 10-Gbps ports

• Buffer credits: Up to 64 for a group of 4 ports, with a default of 16 buffer credits per port for the 4-Gbps ports and 64 buffer credits per 10-Gbps port

• Ports per chassis: Up to 32 4-Gbps ports and 2 10-Gbps ports

– Base configuration with 24 ports

– Additional ports in 8-port increment with the port activation license for 4-Gbps ports

– Two 10-Gbps ports with the 10-Gbps port license

• PortChannel: Up to 16 ports in a PortChannel DWDM-XFP-56.55=

Security

• VSANs

• Zoning

– Hardware-enforced zoning

– Logical-unit-number (LUN) zoning and read-only zones

• FC-SP for host-to-switch and switch-to-switch authentication

• Port security

• Management access

– SSHv2

– SNMPv3

– IP ACLs