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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
The 10-Gbps Fibre Channel ports of the Cisco MDS 9134 Switches can be used as Inter-Switch Link
(ISL) ports for multiple Cisco MDS 9134 Switches. In addition, the 10-Gbps ports on the Cisco MDS
9134 Switch can be configured as ISLs for larger MDS switches on which the DS-X9704 module is
installed. The 10-Gbps interfaces support the copper CX4 X2 transceivers and optical media. For more
information, see the
“Installing Cisco MDS 9134 48-Port and 64-Port Bundles” section on page 2-21
.
Cisco MDS 9134 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.
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Cisco MDS 9134 Switch
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