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Cisco MDS 9148S Multilayer Switch Hardware Installation Guide
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Product Overview
The Cisco MDS 9148S Multilayer Fabric Switch (DS-C9148S48PK9) is the next generation of the
highly reliable and flexible Cisco MDS 9100 Series switches. A powerful compact one rack-unit (1RU)
form factor can scale from 12 to 48 line-rate 16-Gbps Fibre Channel ports.
The Cisco MDS 9148S switch meets the requirements for a:
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Standalone storage area network (SAN) in small departmental storage environments
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Stop-of-the-rack switch in medium-sized redundant fabrics
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Edge switch in enterprise data center core-edge topologies
The Cisco MDS 9148S switch has the following major features:
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12, 24, and 48, default licensed ports and an 12-port on-demand license
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2-, 4-, 8- and, 16-Gbps full line rates
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Port interfaces that support field-replaceable, hot-swappable small form-factor pluggable (SFP)
transceivers
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Redundant hot-swappable power supplies and fan trays, PortChannels for Inter-Switch Link (ISL)
resiliency, and F-port channeling for resiliency on uplinks from a Cisco MDS 9148S operating in
NPV mode
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Enterprise class features such as In-Service Software Upgrades (ISSU), Virtual SANs (VSANs),
security features, and quality of service (QoS)
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PowerOn Auto Provisioning (POAP) to automate software image upgrades and configuration file
installation on newly deployed switches
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Intelligent diagnostics
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Full compatibility with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.
The front of the Cisco MDS 9148S switch contains the LEDs, the console and management ports, and
48 16-Gbps Fibre Channel Ports. See
