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Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module

Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Module

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The Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module is ideal for mission-critical enterprise SANs that require secure, robust, cost-effective disaster recovery and business continuity services. The module delivers outstanding SAN extension performance, minimizing latency for disk and tape with FCIP acceleration features.

Key Specifications

  • Eighteen 1, 2, and 4 Gb/sec FC ports
  • Four 1 Gb Ethernet IP storage services ports
  • Integrates FC, FICON, iSCSI, and FCIP support

Details

Systems Architecture
Port speeds
  • 1, 2, and 4 Gb/sec auto-sensing, optionally configurable
Buffer credits
  • 16 per port (shared-mode ports), up to 250 per port (dedicated-mode ports), and up to 4095 on an individual port (dedicated-mode ports with optional Cisco MDS 9000 Family Enterprise Package license activated)
PortChannel
  • Up to 16 physical links
FCIP tunnels
  • Up to 3 per port
Supported optics, media, and transmission distances Optics
Media
Distance

1 Gb/sec-SW, LC SFP
50/125-micron multimode (OM3)
860 m

1 Gb/sec-SW, LC SFP
50/125-micron multimode
500 m

1 Gb/sec-SW, LC SFP
62.5/125-micron multimode
300 m

1 Gb/sec-LW, LC SFP
9/125-micron single-mode
10 km

2 Gb/sec-SW, LC SFP
50/125-micron multimode
500 m

2 Gb/sec-SW, LC SFP
50/125-micron multimode
300 m

2 Gb/sec-LW, LC SFP
62.5/125-micron multimode
150 m

2 Gb/sec-LW, LC SFP
9/125-micron single-mode
10 km

4 Gb/sec-LW, LC SFP
50/125-micron multimode (OM3)
380 m

4 Gb/sec-SW, LC SFP
50/125-micron multimode
150 m

4 Gb/sec-SW, LC SFP
62.5/125-micron multimode
70 m

4 Gb/sec-MR, LC SFP
9/125-micron single-mode
4 km

4 Gb/sec-LW, LC SFP
9/125-micron single-mode
10 km
Cards/Ports/Slots
  • Eighteen fixed autosensing 1/2/4 Gb/sec Fibre Channel ports and 4 fixed 1 Gb/sec Ethernet ports
Fabric services
  • Name server
  • Internet Storage Name Server (iSNS)
  • Registered State Change Notification (RSCN)
  • Login services
  • Fabric Configuration Server (FCS)
  • Public loop
  • Broadcast
  • In-order delivery
FICON
  • FC-SB-3 compliant
  • Cascaded FICON fabrics
  • Intermix of FICON and Fibre Channel traffic
  • CUP management interface
Advanced functionality
  • VSAN
  • Inter-VSAN Routing
  • PortChannel with Multipath Load Balancing
  • Flow-based and zone-based QoS
  • Fibre Channel Congestion Control
  • FCIP Write Acceleration
  • FCIP Tape Read and Write Acceleration
  • Cisco MDS SME
Network security
  • VSANs
  • Access control lists
  • Per-VSAN role-based access control
  • Fibre Channel zoning
    • N_Port WWN
    • N_Port FC-ID
    • Fx_Port WWN
    • Fx_Port WWN and interface index
    • Fx_Port domain ID and interface index
    • Fx_Port domain ID and port number
    • LUN
    • Read-only
    • Broadcast
  • iSCSI zoning
    • iSCSI name
    • IP address
  • Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)
    • DH-CHAP switch-switch authentication
    • DH-CHAP host-switch authentication
  • Port security and fabric binding
  • IPsec for FCIP and iSCSI
  • IKEv1 and IKEv2
  • Management access
    • SSHv2 implementing AES
    • SNMPv3 implementing AES
    • SFTP
Management
Access methods
  • Out-of-band 10/100 Ethernet port
  • RS-232 serial console port
  • In-band IP-over-Fibre Channel
  • DB-9 COM port
  • In-band FICON CUP over Fibre Channel
Access protocols
  • CLI-via console and Ethernet ports
  • SNMPv3-via Ethernet port and in-band IP over-Fibre Channel access
  • Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
  • FICON CUP
Device alias
  • Distributed Device Alias service
Network security
  • Per-VSAN role-based access control using RADIUS-based and TACACS+-based authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) functions
  • SFTP
  • SSHv2 implementing AES
  • SNMPv3 implementing AES
Management applications
  • Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI
  • Cisco Fabric Manager
  • Cisco Device Manager
  • CiscoWorks Resource Manager Essentials (RME) and Device Fault Manager (DFM)
Programming interface
  • Scriptable CLI
  • Fabric manager GUI
  • Device manager GUI
Software
Software compatibility Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Release 3.2(1) or later
Compatibility
Product compatibility
  • Cisco MDS 9000 Family
Fibre Channel protocols Fibre Channel standards
  • FC-PH, Revision 4.3 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994)
  • FC-PH, Amendment 1 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM1 1996)
  • FC-PH, Amendment 2 (ANSI/INCITS 230-1994/AM2-1999)
  • FC-PH-2, Revision 7.4 (ANSI/INCITS 297-1997)
  • FC-PH-3, Revision 9.4 (ANSI/INCITS 303-1998)
  • FC-PI, Revision 13 (ANSI/INCITS 352-2002)
  • FC-PI-2, Revision 10 (ANSI/INCITS 404-2006)
  • 10GFC, Revision 4.0 (ANSI INCITS 364-2003)
  • 10GFC, Amendment 1 (ANSI INCITS 364-2003/AM1-2007)
  • FC-FS, Revision 1.9 (ANSI/INCITS 373-2003)
  • FC-FS-2, Revision 1.01 (ANSI INCITS 424-2007)
  • FC-FS-2, Amendment 1 (ANSI INCITS 424-2007/AM1-2007)
  • FC-LS, Revision 1.62 (ANSI INCITS 433-2007)
  • FC-AL, Revision 4.5 (ANSI/INCITS 272-1996)
  • FC-AL-2, Revision 7.0 (ANSI/INCITS 332-1999)
  • FC-AL-2, Amendment 1 (ANSI/INCITS 332-1999/AM1-2003)
  • FC-AL-2, Amendment 2 (ANSI/INCITS 332-1999/AM2-2006)
  • FC-SW-2, Revision 5.3 (ANSI/INCITS 355-2001)
  • FC-SW-3, Revision 6.6 (ANSI/INCITS 384-2004)
  • FC-SW-4, Revision 7.5 (ANSI/INCITS 418-2006)
  • FC-GS-3, Revision 7.01 (ANSI/INCITS 348-2001)
  • FC-GS-4, Revision 7.91 (ANSI/INCITS 387-2004)
  • FC-GS-5, Revision 8.51 (ANSI INCITS 427-2007)
  • FC-BB, Revision 4.7 (ANSI/INCITS 342-2001)
  • FC-BB-2, Revision 6.0 (ANSI/INCITS 372-2003)
  • FC-BB-3, Revision 6.8 (ANSI/INCITS 414-2006)
  • FCP, Revision 12 (ANSI/INCITS 269-1996)
  • FCP-2, Revision 8 (ANSI/INCITS 350-2003)
  • FCP-3, Revision 4 (ANSI/INCITS 416-2006)
  • FC-SB-2, Revision 2.1 (ANSI/INCITS 349-2001)
  • FC-SB-3, Revision 1.6 (ANSI/INCITS 374-2003)
  • FC-SB-3, Amendment 1 (ANSI INCITS 374-2003/AM1-2007)
  • FC-VI, Revision 1.84 (ANSI/INCITS 357-2002)
  • FC-SP, Revision 1.8 (ANSI/INCITS 426-2007)
  • FAIS, Revision 1.03 (ANSI INCITS 432-2007)
  • FC-FLA, Revision 2.7 (INCITS TR-20-1998)
  • FC-PLDA, Revision 2.1 (INCITS TR-19-1998)
  • FC-Tape, Revision 1.17 (INCITS TR-24-1999)
  • FC-MI, Revision 1.92 (INCITS TR-30-2002)
  • FC-MI-2, Revision 2.6 (INCITS TR-39-2005)
  • FC-DA, Revision 3.1 (INCITS TR-36-2004)
IP over Fibre Channel (RFC 2625)
IPv6, IPv4 and ARP over FC (RFC 4338)
Extensive IETF-standards based TCP/IP, SNMPv3, and remote monitoring (RMON) MIBs
IP standards
  • RFC 791 IPv4
  • RFC 793, 1323 TCP
  • RFC 894 IP/Ethernet
  • RFC 1041 IP/802
  • RFC 792, 950, 1256 ICMP
  • RFC 1323 TCP performance enhancements
  • RFC 2338 VRRP
  • RFC 2460, 4291 IPv6
  • RFC 2463 ICMPv6
  • RFC 2461, 2462 IPv6 neighbor discovery and stateless auto-configuration
  • RFC 2464 IPv6/Ethernet
  • RFC 3270, 3980 iSCSI
  • RFC 3643, 3821 FCIP
Ethernet standards
  • IEEE 802.3-2005 Ethernet
  • IEEE 802.1Q-2005 VLAN
IPsec
  • RFC 2401, 4301 Security Architecture for IP
  • RFC 2403, 2404 HMAC
  • RFC 2405, 2406, 2451, 4303 IP ESP
  • RFC 2407, 2408 ISAKMP
  • RFC 2412 OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol
  • RFC 3566, 3602, 3686 AES
Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
  • RFC 2409 IKEv1
  • RFC 4306 IKEv2
Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Tools
Tools
  • Power-on-self-test (POST) diagnostics
  • Online diagnostics
  • Internal port loopbacks
  • Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
  • Fibre Channel Traceroute
  • Fibre Channel Ping
  • Fibre Channel Debug
  • Cisco Fabric Analyzer
  • Syslog
  • Online system health
  • Port-level statistics
  • Real Time Protocol Debug
RAS Features
Reliability and availability
  • Hot-swappable module
  • Hot-swappable SFP optics
  • Online diagnostics
  • Stateful Process Restart
  • Any module, any port configuration for PortChannels
  • Fabric-based multipathing
  • Per-VSAN fabric services
  • Port Tracking
  • Virtual Routing Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) for management and FCIP or iSCSI connections
Serviceability
  • Configuration file management
  • ISSU for Fibre Channel interfaces
  • Call Home
  • Power-management LEDs
  • Port beaconing
  • System LED
  • SNMP traps for alerts
  • Network boot
Environmental
Ambient operating temperature 32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
Ambient non-operating temperature and storage 40 to 158°F (-40 to 75°C)
Relative humidity, ambient (non-condensing) operating 10 to 90%
Relative humidity, ambient (non-condensing) non-operating and storage 10 to 95%
Altitude, operating -197 to 6500 ft (-60 to 2000 m)
Physical dimensions Dimensions (H x W x D):
1.75 x 14.4 x 16 in (3.0 x 35.6 x 40.6 cm)
Occupies one slot in a Cisco MDS 9200 Series or MDS 9500 Series chassis
Weight Cisco MDS 9000 Family 18/4 Multiservice Module only: 7.75 lb (3.5 kg)
Regulations
Safety CE Marking
UL 60950
CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950
EN 60950
IEC 60950
TS 001
AS/NZS 3260
IEC60825
EN60825
21 CFR 1040
EMC FCC Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A
ICES-003 Class A
EN 55022 Class A
CISPR 22 Class A
AS/NZS 3548 Class A
VCCI Class A
EN 55024
EN 50082-1
EN 61000-6-1
EN 61000-3-2
EN 61000-3-3
FIPS
140-2 Level 3 (for Multiservice FIPS Module-DS-X9304-18FK9)
Warranty
Duration 1 year
HW coverage hours 8 x 8
HW response times 4 hours*

*average response times, response times may vary by country
Delivery method On-site
HW phone coverage 8 x 8

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