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Cisco MDS 9100 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Cisco MDS 9100 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches
Cisco MDS 9124 Switch
The Cisco MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch has a total of 24 1-, 2-, and 4-Gbps autosensing Fibre
Channel ports. The Cisco MDS 9124 Switch features On-Demand Port Licensing. You can activate
licensing in 8-port increments with each on-demand port activation license for up to a total of 24 ports.
By default, the first 8 ports are licensed. Two additional licenses are required to license all 24 ports. See
Figure 1-2
.
Figure 1-2
Cisco MDS 9124 Switch
Cisco MDS 9124 Multilayer Fabric Switch supports N port identifier virtualization (NPIV). NPIV can
assign multiple FC IDs to a single N port. This feature allows multiple applications on the N port to use
different identifiers and allows access control, zoning, and port security at the application level
For a list of features supported on the Cisco MDS 9124 Switch, see the
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric
Manager Configuration Guide
and the
Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide
.
Cisco MDS 9140 Switch
The Cisco MDS 9140 Switch has a total of 40 1/2-Gbps autosensing, optionally configurable ports. The
first eight ports on the left-hand side are the bandwidth-optimized ports. They are delineated by a white
border. The remaining eight groups of four ports each are the host optimized port groups. See
Figure 1-3
.
Figure 1-3
Cisco MDS 9140 Switch
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