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Overview of Cisco MDS 9124V-K9 Switch
The Cisco MDS 9124V-K9 switch has 24 x 8/16/32/64-Gbps multispeed ports and is a powerful and compact
1-rack unit (1 RU) SAN fabric switch that is particularly fit for energy constrained data centers. This switch
has the following major features:
• Provides consistent 64-Gbps quality performance for every Fibre Channel port on the switch.
• Supports licensed 64-Gbps Fibre Channel ports, which can be expanded in increments of 8 ports up to
24 ports.
• Supports enterprise class features, such as Auto Zone, Smart Zoning, Slow Drain Detection and Isolation,
Virtual SAN (VSAN) and Inter-VSAN routing (IVR).
• Provides intelligent diagnostics tools such as Inter-Switch Link (ISL) diagnostics, HBA diagnostics with
leading HBA vendors, collection of remote transceiver error statistics, protocol decoding, network analysis
tools, and integrated Cisco Call Home.
• Supports Virtual Machine Identifier (VMID) that provides visibility into virtual machines that are
accessing the storage devices in the fabric.
• Supports HTTP based Cisco NX-API for RPC style on-switch command execution by remote scripts.
• Provides secured hardware that protects the switch from malicious attacks by securing access to critical
components such as the bootloader, system image loader, and Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) interface.
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Chassis Components
This section describes the different components of the chassis.
Front View
The following figure shows the front view of the switch:
Cisco MDS 9124V-K9 Switch Hardware Installation Guide
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