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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Chapter 1 Product Overview
Hardware Overview
Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series includes the following multilayer, modular directors:
• The Cisco MDS 9513 Director, which has thirteen slots, two of which (slot 7 and slot 8) are reserved
for the Supervisor-2 modules, and can accommodate up to eleven hot-pluggable switching or
services modules.
• The Cisco MDS 9509 Director, which has nine slots, two of which (slot 5 and slot 6) are reserved
for the Supervisor-1 modules or Supervisor-2 modules, and can accommodate up to seven
hot-pluggable switching or services modules.
• The Cisco MDS 9506 Director, which has six slots, two of which (slot 5 and slot 6) are reserved for
the Supervisor-1 modules or Supervisor-2 modules, and can accommodate up to four hot-pluggable
switching or services modules.
Note • Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.1(1a) and later are not supported on the MDS 9120, 9140, 9216,
9216A switches, and the MDS 9500 Series Directors that include Supervisor 1 modules. You must
replace Supervisor 1 modules with Supervisor 2 modules.
• Supervisor-1 modules and Supervisor-2 modules can only operate in the same chassis during
migration.
The two supervisor modules ensure high availability and traffic load balancing capabilities. The standby
supervisor module provides redundancy if the active supervisor module fails. Supervisor-1 modules
provide management access through a 10/100BASE-T Ethernet port switch and an RS-232 serial port.
Supervisor-2 modules provide management access through a 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet port switch
and an RS-232 serial port.
Note As of Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.2(1), the USB ports on the Supervisor-2 module are supported.
USB flash drives connected to these ports may be used for the same functions as media in the external
compact flash slot.
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series directors support the following switching and services modules:
• 48-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 24-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 4/44-port 8-Gbps Host Optimized Fibre Channel switching module
• 48-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 24-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 12-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 4-port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 32-port 2-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 18/4-port Multiservice module (MSM-18/4)
• 18/4-port Multiservice module FIPS
• 18-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 16-port 2-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
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