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Cisco MDS 9100 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Cisco MDS 9100 Series Ports
All 48 8-Gbps ports can operate at line rate concurrently.
Ports on the Cisco MDS 9134 Switch
The Cisco MDS 9134 Switch provides up to 32 autosensing and autonegotiating Fibre Channel ports
capable of speeds of 1, 2, and 4 Gbps. The first 24 ports are licensed by default. On-Demand Port
Activation Licensing allows expansion to 32 ports, with additional ports available as an 8-port group.
The Cisco MDS 9134 Switch also offers two 10-Gbps ports.
Table 1-2
shows the mapping of ports to
port groups.
Note
If a port or optical transceiver fails, you can disable that licensed port and assign the port license to
another unused available port for recovery resiliency.You can re-assign the licensed ports to any of the
48 physical ports (up to the permitted number of licensed ports).
Table 1-1
Port Group Mapping on the Cisco MDS 9148 Switch
Ports
Port Group
Front panel fc1/33–36
Port group 0
Front panel fc1/29–32
Port group 1
Front panel fc1/25–28
Port group 2
Front panel fc1/45–48
Port group 3
Front panel fc1/41–44
Port group 4
Front panel fc1/37–40
Port group 5
Front panel fc1/9–12
Port group 6
Front panel fc1/5–8
Port group 7
Front panel fc1/1–4
Port group 8
Front panel fc1/21–24
Port group 9
Front panel fc1/17–20
Port group 10
Front panel fc1/13–16
Port group 11
Table 1-2
Port Group Mapping on the Cisco MDS 9134 Switch
Ports
Port Group
Front panel fc1/1–4
Port group 0
Front panel fc1/5–8
Port group 1
Front panel fc1/9–12
Port group 2
Front panel fc1/13–16
Port group 3
Front panel fc1/17–20
Port group 4
Front panel fc1/21–24
Port group 5
Front panel fc1/25–28
Port group 6
